Last April, Keri Copans, Hillel\’s campus director at the University of California, San Diego, learned that a measure was about to come before her student government asking the university to divest from companies that do business with \”occupying\” powers.
Barclays Bank will pay $298 million to settle charges that it violated U.S. sanctions by conducting transactions with clients in Iran, Cuba, Libya, Sudan and Myanmar.
Harvard University sold all its shares in Israeli companies during the second quarter of 2010, the investment group which manages the university’s substantial endowment has reported to US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Google removed Nazi-related applications from its Android downloads following protests from Jewish users.
The developer of a proposed mosque near Ground Zero said it would consider building elsewhere a day before President Obama defended its right to build there.
Australia\’s opposition Liberal Party has vowed to prosecute a Muslim group that is banned in America.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee has enlisted a group of volunteers to help elderly Jews in Moscow during a heat wave in Russia.
Reports saying that a judge ruled that the New York Mets\’ ballpark must allow a kosher-food vendor to sell its products on the Jewish Sabbath \”mischaracterize the court\’s verbal ruling,\” the team said.
The Arab-Israeli suspect in a series of killings and attacks in three states waived his extradition to Michigan.
Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is of the best-known Iranian personalities, standing in sharp distinction to the Islamic Republic’s bellicose president and ayatollah. Crown Prince Reza is son of the late Shah of Iran and has lived in the United States since the revolution in 1979. He\’s known as an advocate of the principles of freedom, democracy and human rights.
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