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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 05/24/12 @ 04:11PM EST
- Jewish groups called on Israel to protect African migrants in Israel after riots in Tel Aviv.
- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel is returning campaign donations under investigation by federal authorities.
- A new survey suggests that Germans have lost some love for Israel over the past three years.
- An Arab-Israeli immigrant to the United States was found guilty of murder in Michigan.
- Israel's Arava Power Company has closed on financing for eight solar power projects worth $204 million.
- U.S. Jewish groups condemn anti-African violence in Tel Aviv
- Mandel returns funds under investigation
- Obama’s same-sex marriage nod echoes historic Catholic-Jewish debate
- Survey: Israel losing ground with Germans
- Israeli Arab guilty of murder in Michigan
- Israel’s Arava firm finances $204 million for solar projects
- Israel will solve African migrant problem, Netanyahu assures
- Senate distinguishes between Palestinian refugees and descendants
