Articles http://www.jta.org/news/ en zsilberman@washingtonjewishweek.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-09T22:54:00-05:00 Israeli divestment gets an F on campus http://www.jta.org/news/article/2008/01/30/106723/california http://www.jta.org/site/california/#When:10:00:01Z While the campus Israel divestment movement has garnered much media coverage and induced much hand wringing in the Jewish community, divestment demands have had little effect on American university administrators. U.S. 2008-01-30T10:00:01-05:00 Wiesel back in S.F. for prize http://www.jta.org/news/article/2007/05/09/101736/wieselsanfrancisco http://www.jta.org/site/wieselsanfrancisco/#When:09:00:01Z Elie Wiesel was back in San Francisco three months after being physically assaulted by a Holocaust denier to accept the Koret Prize. U.S. 2007-05-09T09:00:01-05:00 Remembering Seymour Lipset, renowned sociologist http://www.jta.org/news/article/2007/01/09/14837/RememberingSeymour http://www.jta.org/site/RememberingSeymour/#When:10:00:01Z Seymour Martin "Marty" Lipset, a revered analyst of American society and democracy, died Dec. 31 after years of medical troubles following a stroke. He was 84. 2007-01-09T10:00:01-05:00 Like father, like son for Jewish Nobelist http://www.jta.org/news/article/2006/10/05/14517/Likefatherlikeso http://www.jta.org/site/Likefatherlikeso/#When:09:00:01Z Thirty-seven years after Arthur Kornberg won the Nobel Prize in medicine, his eldest son, Roger, took home this year’s prize in chemistry. 2006-10-05T09:00:01-05:00 Neighbors recall former Nazi guard http://www.jta.org/news/article/2006/09/21/14477/SanFrancisconeighb http://www.jta.org/site/SanFrancisconeighb/#When:09:00:01Z San Francisco residents spoke out following the revelation that their neighbor Elfriede Rinkel served as a guard at an all-women’s concentration camp. 2006-09-21T09:00:01-05:00 New Jewish baseball card set released http://www.jta.org/news/article/2005/12/21/13541/NewJewishbaseball http://www.jta.org/site/NewJewishbaseball/#When:10:00:01Z A new Jewish baseball set of 55 cards contains cards for six Jews who have broken into the big leagues recently, six old-time Jewish ballplayers recently unearthed and four women who played in the wartime girls' baseball league. 2005-12-21T10:00:01-05:00 Oakland shul fire may be arson http://www.jta.org/news/article/2002/05/06/8853/FireatOrthodoxOak http://www.jta.org/site/FireatOrthodoxOak/#When:09:00:01Z A fire that burned part of the exterior of a California synagogue may be the second arson attempt on a Bay Area synagogue in two months. 2002-05-06T09:00:01-05:00 $5 million grant brings Israeli to Berkeley http://www.jta.org/news/article/1999/11/30/9430/millionDillergr http://www.jta.org/site/millionDillergr/#When:10:00:01Z A $5 million grant from the Helen Diller Family Fund will be utilized to bring an Israeli professor to U.C. Berkeley every year. Diller gave a matching $5 million to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. 1999-11-30T10:00:01-05:00 Young Jew wows Democratic convention http://www.jta.org/news/article/1999/11/30/11783/yearolddazzles http://www.jta.org/site/yearolddazzles/#When:10:00:01Z Which is harder — taking the U.S. vice president to task in front of 35,000 roaring delegates at the Democratic Convention and millions of television viewers, or chanting in Hebrew in front of the congregation? After 12-year-old Ilana Wexler handled her c 1999-11-30T10:00:01-05:00 Former AIPAC director to head SF federation http://www.jta.org/news/article/1999/11/30/13086/FormerAIPACdirecto http://www.jta.org/site/FormerAIPACdirecto/#When:10:00:01Z Tom Dine, best known in the Jewish world as the executive who built the American Israel Public Affairs Committee into a pro-Israel lobby powerhouse, is returning to Jewish life as the head of the San Francisco federation. 1999-11-30T10:00:01-05:00