🤷 The newly elected president of Argentina, far-right TV pundit Javier Milei, picked an auspicious destination for his first trip to the U.S.: He visited the tomb of the Lubavitcher rebbe in Queens, New York. (JTA)
✍️ We previously reported that big corporations like Disney and Universal have paused advertising on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, after Elon Musk endorsed an antisemitic post. Now comes word that the companies — and some of their subsidiary accounts like @StarWars and @MarvelStudios — have stopped posting content on the platform altogether. (CNN)
🏫 A human rights group sued the University of California, Berkeley on behalf of Jewish students, alleging that the campus is a “hotbed of anti-Jewish hostility and harassment.” (Jewish Insider)
📙 Congressman George Santos, Republican of New York, has lied about his career and his Jewish heritage, and now faces federal charges for, among other things, conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. A new book out today, The Fabulist, is the first full-scale biography of the embattled politician. (The Guardian)
Watch: Laura E. Adkins and I interviewed the author while he was working on the Santos book earlier this year.
Shiva call ➤ Shelley Akabas, a labor economist who trained social workers in helping people with disabilities, died at 92.
What else we’re reading ➤ Isaac Bashevis Singer’s younger brother, the forgotten giant of Yiddish fiction … A German actress said that to play a Nazi on screen, she withheld her empathy … Jewish joke in Broadway’s Spamalot led to “in-depth” backstage discussion.
