July 18, 2008

Friend: TV writer Ross intends to leave almost everything to Jewish charities

I have been trying to get in touch with Mickey Ross, the producer and writer on such iconic television shows as “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons” and “Three’s Company,” who over the past several months has given away some $14 million to UCLA and the City College of New York to build up their […]

By Jacob Berkman July 18, 2008 8:31 pm

Digesting the Jewish news: Trans-gendered job program in SF, a new non-profit hub in Detroit, and Go

I read ’em. Now you read ’em. The best of the Jewish newspapers: The Jewish Vocational Service in San Francisco is working with three other local non-profits on a job placement and training program for trans-gendered people, reports J. The Jewish Weekly of San Fransisco. A synagogue in Detroit spearheaded a project to buy a […]

July 18, 2008 8:20 pm

Iran on my mind

Israeli historian Benny Morris games out an Israeli attack on Iran and its aftermath, which might include nuclear exchanges between Israel and Iran, in an Op-Ed piece in Friday’s New York Times: “Should Israel’s conventional assault fail to significantly harm or stall the Iranian program, a ratcheting up of the Iranian-Israeli conflict to a nuclear […]

July 18, 2008 7:16 pm

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