The San Francisco museum is most similar to The Jewish Museum in New York in terms of focus, scale and public programming. But while the latter is a collecting institution that interprets the history of world Jewry, San Francisco\’s museum offers what director Connie Wolf described as \”a contemporary perspective on Jewish art, culture and history.\”
Teachers and administrators from Jewish preschools in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Israel traveled to Italy to learn about the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education
New Community Jewish High School (NCJHS) awarded eight Holocaust survivors honorary high school diplomas last Wednesday night, symbolically handing them back a part of their adolescence that had been stolen by the war
Southern California\’s best and brightest graduating high school seniors
More than 1,400 people marched up Vanowen Street and across Victory Boulevard in West Hills last Sunday to raise funds and awareness about the genocide in Darfur. The second annual three-mile Walk for Darfur raised more than $35,000 for Jewish World Watch\’s work in refugee support, political advocacy and education.
The annual Policy Conference is a gaudy display of political muscle, but there was something missing: an awards ceremony for those who have done the most to advance the pro-Israel lobby\’s power and purse. Had there been such honors, these would have been my nominees, the unsung heroes who have seen to it that AIPAC has, as one official told me, \”more money than we know what to do with.\”
Thirty years ago this week, California voters started a taxpayer revolt that quickly spread to other states, helped set the stage for President Ronald Reagan\’s income tax cuts\nand inspired an entire generation of die-hard opponents of big governmen
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