The Hamas government in Gaza announced that it will execute Palestinians found guilty of collaborating with Israel.\n\nDespite protests in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the announcement was made Wednesday by the Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hammad, according to reports.\n
U.C. Berkeley student Will Smelko, president of the Associated Students of University of California, vetoed a resolution March 24 that urged U.C. divestment from two companies that supply war materials to Israel.
Thursday, April 1
“Or Ami Breakfast Business Schmooze”
Make connections and discuss business topics during a breakfast at Label’s Table. 7:30 a.m. 23311 Mulholland Drive, Woodland Hills. RSVP to susie@orami.org.
“The Wedding Singer: The Musical”
Based on the Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore film, this heartwarming musical comedy follows wannabe rocker Robbie, a hopeless romantic, who meets a waitress named Julia and faces the highs and lows of being in love in the 1980s. The show features a Boy George-style version of the Shehecheyanu and the bar mitzvah-inspired “Today You Are a Man.” Runs through April 4. 8 p.m. $20. Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, 3050 Los Angeles Ave., Simi Valley. (805) 583-7900. title=\”simi-arts.org\”>simi-arts.org.
Last Tuesday, 22 years to the day after the Iraqi government, led by Saddam Hussein, committed an act of genocide against the Kurdish people of Halabja, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles unveiled a small but graphic exhibition in its Museum of Tolerance (MOT) commemorating the 5,000 Kurds who were killed. Hussein’s catastrophic chemical barrage was intended to suppress guerilla revolts at the end of the Iran-Iraq War.
While most kids who attend Jewish overnight camps this summer will ship off to rural settings, a handful will find themselves in the concrete jungle of Manhattan engaged in what could be described as early career development.
The University of California Board of Regents addressed the recent spate of hate violence and racist vandalism at its campuses by announcing a series of measures designed to monitor and prevent hate violence in the university system.
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) angrily lashed out at Democratic leaders for their handling of reported threats against members of Congress Thursday, accusing them of \”dangerously fanning the flames\” by blaming the GOP and confiding that he has also been the recipient of threats.
It began with a small ad placed in the Melbourne edition of the Australian Jewish News by John Rosenberg, a Jewish professor who liked neither the constraints of Orthodoxy nor the lack of tradition in Reform Judaism.
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