A Sacramento man, Chris Yatooma, has drafted a state initiative that would prevent California public pension funds such as the Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) from investing in any companies with business relations with Israel. To qualify as a proposition on the Nov. 2 ballot, this divestment initiative needs 433,971 signatures by Aug. 12.
Stephen Rosmarin, private first class in the United States Army, 7th Division, was stationed in Korea during Passover 1946. He and about 50 other Jewish soldiers, including seven commanding generals, turned to the chaplain to officiate at their seder.
If last season’s “Seinfeld” reunion on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” made you nostalgic for the pairing of Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander, you won’t want to miss “Jerry Seinfeld Live!” a historic night of comedy. Seinfeld, fresh off “The Marriage Ref,” shares an intimate stage with host Alexander. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit Reprise Theatre Company. Thu. 8 p.m. $40-$150. Saban Theatre, 8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. (323) 655-0111. reprise.org.
You should really get a more balanced and perceptive Editor-in-Chief if he thinks the Tea Partyers (“Party Off,” March 26) are more of a danger than the radical left in this country!
The different faces of courage confronting overpowering tragedy is the over-riding theme in seven films to be shown on PBS station KCET during Holocaust Remembrance Week, April 10-14.
Ever thought about putting on a prayer shawl as an architectural experience? Michael Lehrer has some ideas on the matter.
On March 24, Valley Beth Shalom (VBS) hosted a Hunger Seder in conjunction with MAZON, Progressive Jewish Alliance, Sinai Temple, the Jewish Federation’s Fed Up With Hunger program and others. According to the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Los Angeles event was one of more than 40 hunger and child nutrition seders held in more than 30 cities across the country.
Two local Orthodox high schools took top honors at recent national competitions.
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