It was a given that Benjy Rabin, 9, would spend part of his summers at Camp Ramah as soon as he was old enough. His father is a Ramah alum, and so are his older brother and sister.
\”During the Holocaust, not everyone abandoned the Jews. Not everyone forgot about you.\”
\nSo spoke Poland\’s Undersecretary of State Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, and her words were backed by the photos and stories of 21 surviving non-Jews from Poland recognized as Righteous Among the Nations that lined the hallway at the UCLA Hillel Center.
The effort to reinstate the University of California\’s study in Israel program entered the state Legislature last week.
It\’s not every centenarian who can celebrate his birthday with full-throated songs and Yiddish jokes, but the Workmen\’s Circle/Arbeter Ring did just that in marking its 100th anniversary year in California with high good humor, leavened with a bit of nostalgia.
Joy Horowitz\’s \”Parts Per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School\” (Viking) is a dense 350-page book detailing a four-year fight between 1,000 litigants who claimed oil wells at the school caused diseases, such as cancer, and defendants — including the oil companies, the city of Beverly Hills and school officials — who said there had been no harmful effects from the (profitable) derricks.
Readers respond to The Jewish Journal articles.
The president of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester resigned Thursday amid criticism of a short opinion piece he wrote for The Washington Post online titled \”Jewish Identity Can\’t Depend on Violence.\”
In the space of an hour — plus an extra 10 to 15 minutes thrown in for good measure — David Solomon outlines the 4,000 years of Jewish history, from 2000 B.C.E. to the present. Each white paper wall represents 1,000 years, and as Solomon moves from Abraham to the 12 tribes, Moses, the prophets, the First and Second Temples, the Babylonian exile and the \”PR stunt\” of Chanukah, he works the room, swiveling the audience in its seats as he races from one side of the room to another.
In a groundbreaking collegial but hard-hitting conference sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, a slate of top scholars, public officials, diplomats and Polish Jewish community leaders met to discuss the controversial and complicated relationship of Poles and Jews.
The president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) has roiled the organization\’s branch in Israel by writing to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with a plea to allow Diaspora Jews a voice in any decisions on Jerusalem\’s future
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