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Moving and shaking: USHMM’s annual Los Angeles dinner, Sally Drucker turns 100 and more
Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) annual Los Angeles dinner was themed “What You Do Matters.”
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block: BDS ‘isn’t going to be sustained on this campus’
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.
Eden Memorial Park faces second suit
Jewish cemetery Eden Memorial Park in Mission Hills is facing a new, multimillion-dollar lawsuit related to allegations that it mishandled burial vaults, threw disrupted human remains into a pile on cemetery grounds and concealed potentially damaging information from its existing and potential customers.
L.A.’s financial support of Israel’s election
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.
Q&A: Nikbakht explains how Iranian regime is exporting anti-Jewish ideology to U.S.
Moving and shaking: Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters, AFKMC and more
Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles (JBBBSLA) celebrated its centennial and the renaming of its nonsectarian Camp Max Straus during a Feb. 21 event at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza hotel that drew more than 700 attendees and raised $760,000 for the mentoring organization.
UCLA investigating activist David Horowitz over #JewHaters posters
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).
From the Freedom Rides to the L.A. City Council
When traveling by air, rail, or bus across country on business or pleasure, I always recall the summer of 1961, when the Freedom Rides made interstate travel the democratic activity we take for granted.
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