As a longtime professor of religious studies and Middle Eastern history as well as an Iranian Jew, I wasn’t surprised certain Middle Eastern ethnicities are completely absent from the draft California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum.
Jewish Insider National Politics Reporter Jacob Kornbluh has spent months reporting on violations of COVID-19 restrictions in New York’s ultra-Orthodox communities. On October 7th, Kornbluh, a Borough Park resident, was attacked while reporting on anti-lockdown protests in his own neighborhood.