Lyft has fired a driver who allegedly assaulted a member of a prominent Chabad rabbinical family in Washington, D.C. Rabbi Menachem Shemtov ordered a Lyft and asked the driver to turn down the music, but the driver became hostile and eventually punched Shemtov in the face.

Today in the Taxi is a poetry collection by Sean Singer that won the Jewish Book Award.

Lyft's Jewish co-founder donated $1 million to the ACLU to fight against President Trump's immigration ban on 7 majority-Muslim countries.