People in the audience at UC Santa Barbara’s Pollack Theater on the evening of Feb. 3 weren’t quite sure what to make of Michael Douglas clapping one hand against the other and then against his leg.
In the race to replace California Democratic State Sen. Fran Pavley, who will term out of office in less than a year, Janice Kamenir-Reznik, co-founder of the nonprofit Jewish World Watch, last month entered a busy State Senate District 27 primary contest that now has six Democratic candidates, at least four of them Jewish, and only one Republican, Steve Fazio, who’s also Jewish.
Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller’s passion, energy and outspokenness haven’t changed much over the past four decades, but his surroundings certainly have.
One of three winners of the $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot was initially believed to have won with a ticket given to her as a gift by her employer—businessman and philanthropist Shlomo Rechnitz, according to Rechnitz spokesman Joshua Nass. The report is now in question.
“We’ll provide the ticket. You provide the dream.”
Where does UCLA draw the line when it comes to speech and conduct protected by the First Amendment? When are words and actions punishable according to university standards?
Three years ago, I left swampy New Orleans, and rather than return to my Maryland hometown, I found myself lured to Los Angeles.
As promised, Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) has brought a bill to the California legislature that, if passed, would bar state pensions and trust funds from investing in companies that economically discriminate against Israel. It also would bar the state from entering into most contracts with such companies.
Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, a popular Sephardic rabbi in parts of the Charedi world, said in a speech filmed years ago — but not posted online until the end of December — that the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust is below the historically accepted number of 6 million.
Eleven years ago, environmental attorney Albert “Albie” Cohen was representing about 200 people in a lawsuit, and after resolving the case and making all of the distributions, he had about $10,000 remaining.
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