UCLA donors and alumni — concerned and upset, but mostly supportive
March 25, 2015
Loren Witkin remembers the days when his two sons, Matthew and Brandon, were decked out in UCLA gear as newborns.
Jared Sichel
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block: BDS ‘isn’t going to be sustained on this campus’
March 18, 2015
Evidence of the concern within UCLA’s Jewish community stemming from recent events on campus could be seen on March 16 by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block’s visitors that day.
L.A.’s financial support of Israel’s election
March 16, 2015
The Los Angeles dollars—or shekels—spent may not have approached the amount Hollywood throws around for U.S. elections, but Jews in Los Angeles nevertheless managed to funnel about $175,000 into Israel’s party primaries this election cycle.
Former congressional candidate Elan Carr to run for county supervisor
March 12, 2015
Following an unsuccessful bid for Congress in November, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Elan Carr told the Journal on March 10 that he plans to announce he will run in 2016 for Los Angeles County Supervisor in the county’s northernmost 5th District.
UCLA investigating activist David Horowitz over #JewHaters posters
March 12, 2015
A UCLA spokesman said campus police are investigating conservative activist David Horowitz after his admission to the Journal on Feb. 24 that he was behind the appearance on campuses nationwide of posters that drew comparisons between the terrorist group Hamas and the student group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
IAC goes to Washington … and plans to stay
March 4, 2015
On the evening of March 1, just before a private Israeli-American Council (IAC) event for college students at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington, D.C., it was difficult for two of IAC’s co-founders, Shawn Evenhaim and Adam Milstein, to walk more than a few feet without being approached by attendees.
Why Santa Barbara Hillel’s largest donor is the Jewish Federation of … Boston
March 4, 2015
Rabbi Evan Goodman, executive director of UC Santa Barbara’s Hillel, was concerned when annual funding allocations from The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles were cut year after year, beginning in 2011. But he wasn’t surprised.
Netanyahu says U.S. must up the ante on Iran
March 3, 2015
With every seat plus standing room filled in the House chamber on Capitol Hill on March 3, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s highly anticipated and much-debated speech on a potential nuclear deal between the United States and Iran did not reveal new information about the deal’s content, nor did it indicate a clear path forward if the deal collapses.
Day 2 at AIPAC: Bibi’s pre-Congress speech and (less) anxiety about Speechgate
March 2, 2015
As nervous anticipation filled the halls Monday morning at the AIPAC policy conference in advance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Tuesday address to Congress, there was one consistent theme coming from some of the day’s top speakers, which included two White House officials and, of course, Netanyahu:
In front of 16,000, Rice opposes AIPAC’s Iran agenda, Menendez opposes Rice
March 2, 2015
National Security Advisor Susan Rice‘s speech on Monday may go down as the most contentious in recent memory at an AIPAC policy conference, during a historically tense period of the U.S.-Israel alliance.
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