February 14, 2008

L.A.’s defenders of Israel

Brad A. Greenberg February 14, 2008

StandWithUs has grown from a small group of volunteers meeting at the Rothsteins\’ home to an international organization with offices in Los Angeles, New York and three other U.S. locales as well as Europe and Israel. With a staff of about 40, a budget of $3 million and a number of printed materials — including a 43-page glossy guide, \”Israel 101,\” and flyers comparing Walt and Mearsheimer\’s book \”The Israel Lobby\” with \”The Protocols of the Elders of Zion\” — StandWithUs acts, as Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said, as an \”intellectual Delta Force.\”\n

Chai Center rabbi explains ‘off the handle’ e-mails

Julie Gruenbaum Fax February 14, 2008

Israel @ 60: The day that Israel came to town

Tom Tugend February 14, 2008

Israelity Tour teases trips with an Israeli beat

Dikla Kadosh February 14, 2008

In a move that echoes this fusion of cultural exposure and music, the Taglit-Birthright Israel Alumni Association, recently rebranded as Birthright Israel Next, has launched the Israelity Tour — a seven-city West Coast concert extravaganza aimed at exposing young American Jews to Israeli culture, promoting the free 10-day educational trips to Israel for 18- to 26-year-olds, as well as cultivating the connections alumni of the trip have already made to the Holy Land and one another.