No motive yet in murder of Detroit synagogue leader

Detroit police found Samantha Woll, 40, president of the egalitarian Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, dead outside her home on Saturday morning. A trail of blood leading back to her home indicated to the police that she was stabbed multiple times there, the Detroit Free Press reported. Read more

Biden calls retiring Jesse Jackson, with long history of Jew-hatred, ‘man of God and of the people’

History will remember Jesse Jackson as “a man of God and of the people,” who is “determined, strategic and unafraid of the work to redeem the soul of our nation,” U.S. President Biden stated on July 16. Read more

‘I bought the Sassoon Codex for the Jewish people, not for me’

Alfred Moses, the former U.S. ambassador to Romania bought the most expensive book ever sold … and then donated it to a Jewish museum in Tel Aviv. Read more

Tel Aviv ANU–Museum of the Jewish People buys Codex Sassoon for $33.5 million

First, there was the possibility that Renaissance man par excellence Leonardo da Vinci was Jewish. Now, the oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, Codex Sassoon, which dates to around the year 900, beat da Vinci’s Codex Leicester as the most expensive book ever sold at auction. Read more