Just when we thought it was safe to proclaim the mayoral campaign free from the kind of race-baiting that has tainted previous runs for City Hall, we get this bogus automated telephone message, falsely attributed to Republican candidate Steve Soboroff, attesting to his supposed reliance on \”Jewish money.\”
\nWhen the Skirball Cultural Center opened in April 1996, its founding president and CEO, Rabbi Uri D. Herscher, didn\’t buy the philosophy \”If you build it, they will come.\”
Though the number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in California was down slightly, from 275 in 1999 to 257 in 2000, figures across the nation show a 4 percent increase over the previous year, according to the ADL\’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents.
Growing up in Mississippi, the granddaughter of devout Baptist sharecroppers, Delores Gray came from what she calls \”a praying background.\”
Sharon Kupferman, a junior at Cal State Northridge, was one of 11 students left \”hanging in the air\” last fall, when the statewide university system abruptly canceled its overseas study program in Israel.
In the long view — and who could have a longer view than the man who, until recently, was the U.S. State Department\’s Middle East negotiator for the past 12 years? — Dennis Ross believes that diplomacy in the Middle East boils down to psychology. \”The idea of taking politics out of foreign policy,\” Ross said, \”is as illusory as taking psychology out of human behavior, and what is foreign policy after all, but a collection of human behaviors.\”
On April 2, UCLA Hillel opened a spring forum titled \”Muslim-Jewish Relations: Harmony and Discord Throughout History\” examining relations between Muslims and Jews from the founding of Islam to the contemporary era.
\nHenry Bean can barely contain his anger when he talks about the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
