In her talk, which ran more than an hour, Deborah Lipstadt reflected on her almost five-year ordeal, which began when Irving sued her and her publisher, Penguin Books, for libel in a British court.
Cut to 1995, when Horovitz, an acclaimed playwright with a number of German friends, realized he still harbored a grudge against Germans and Germany. \”I thought, \’I\’d better go over there and deal with this right away,\” says the author, who arranged a whirlwind tour of his then-current German productions.
Temple Emanu-El, after all, was the largest synagogue in San Francisco and the site of many memorial services of Jewish celebrities and civic leaders.
The lawsuit stems from fallout over the phone company\’s failure to act responsibly after Pacific Bell Directory had included the address of a San Fernando Valley JFS shelter in white pages and 411 listings.
A trip to the Emerald Isle, where folks go around kissing the Blarney Stone, has always been on our traveling wish list.
Iranian hard-liners are showing no signs of backing down in the trial of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel.
Combining a teenager\’s maturity with the self-esteem of the chronically homely, I put a great deal of effort that fall and winter into trying to remake myself in the image of the desirable Brandeis woman.
In the past, the Jewish Community Foundation has used its grant-making powers to help senior citizens, Conejo Valley preschoolers, and teens traveling to Israel.
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