🌴 Florida’s 12 public universities are conducting a review of all college course materials with the goal of flagging content that may contain “antisemitic material” or “anti-Israeli bias” after an online course at Florida International University asked if Jews invented terrorism. (Miami Herald)
👮 A man who shouted “Free Palestine!” and stabbed a Jewish man near Chabad headquarters on Saturday in Brooklyn faces hate crime charges. The victim is expected to recover. (JTA, Jerusalem Post)
🎒 Vandals sprayed anti-Israel messages on an elementary school and the surrounding area in Bethesda, Maryland. In Stamford, Connecticut, vandals left antisemitic messages at a high school’s campus. Both are public schools; police are investigating. (Washington Post, NBC)
⚖️ A judge on Friday dismissed the case against the man accused of killing the president of a Detroit synagogue after a jury cleared him of a similar but separate charge three weeks ago. (AP)
🧕 A Florida man was sentenced to three years and one month in prison for assaulting a federal employee when he attacked a Muslim U.S. postal worker and tried to remove her hijab. (AP)
On the calendar ➤ Sunday was the 25th anniversary of the shooting at the North Valley JCC in California. On August 11, 1999, a white supremacist shot three children, a camp counselor and a receptionist at the Jewish Community Center. Later that day, he shot and killed a Filipino postal worker.
Shiva calls ➤ Howie Cohen, an admaker best known for creating catchphrases for Alka-Seltzer, died at 81 … Miriam Mintz, a Chabad emissary and a teacher at Baltimore’s Talmudical Academy, died at 30.
