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Israeli divestment gets an F on campus
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. Read more »
Wiesel back in S.F. for prize
Elie Wiesel was back in San Francisco three months after being physically assaulted by a Holocaust denier to accept the Koret Prize. Read more »
Remembering Seymour Lipset, renowned sociologist
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. Read more »
Like father, like son for Jewish Nobelist
Thirty-seven years after Arthur Kornberg won the Nobel Prize in medicine, his eldest son, Roger, took home this year’s prize in chemistry. Read more »
Neighbors recall former Nazi guard
San Francisco residents spoke out following the revelation that their neighbor Elfriede Rinkel served as a guard at an all-women’s concentration camp. Read more »
New Jewish baseball card set released
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. Read more »
Oakland shul fire may be arson
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. Read more »
$5 million grant brings Israeli to Berkeley
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. Read more »
Young Jew wows Democratic convention
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 Read more »
Former AIPAC director to head SF federation
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. Read more »
RSS Feed Breaking News
Updated 02/09/12 @ 05:54PM EST
- A poll showed that nearly half of likely voters believed the United States should use military force to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
- Rabbi Gunther Plaut, a major figure in Reform Judaism, died in Toronto.
- The application for a proposed Hebrew-language charter school was accepted by the District of Columbia Public Charter School board.
- A truck driving calves from Eilat to the Golan Heights was hijacked into the West Bank.
- U.S. Rep. Howard Berman introduced legislation that would allow eligible Israeli nationals to receive non-immigrant investor visas in the United States.
- Poll: Half of U.S. voters back strike on nuclear Iran
- Reform leader Rabbi Gunther Plaut dies
- D.C. Hebrew-language charter school accepted for review
- Op-Ed: Kick the reaction addiction on campus
- Berman moves to grant investor visas to Israelis
- Holy cow! Calves hijacked into Palestinian territory
- Report: Israeli journalist also works for prime minister
- Larry Greenfield tapped to lead JINSA
