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April 9, 2010
“The Arabs are multiplying twice as fast as the Israelis”
Professor Sergio Della Pergola is widely considered Israel’s leading specialist in demography. He is the Shlomo Argov professor of Israel-diaspora relations, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. On March 16, while on a work visit to Los Angeles, he sat for an interview at Jerry’s Deli in Westwood with professor emeritus Murray Fromson of the USC Annenberg school for communication and journalism
Punk impresario Malcolm McLaren dies at 64
Malcolm McLaren, the Jewish punk impresario who launched the Sex Pistols upon an unsuspecting world, has died.
Netanyahu drops out of nuclear summit
Israel\’s prime minister will not attend President Obama\’s Nuclear Security Summit next week.
CEO sued for anti-Semitic remarks
A former employee of an online baby equipment retailer is suing its CEO for allegedly making frequent anti-Semitic remarks.\n\nIn his suit against BabyAge.com, Shlomo Hecht claims that in January 2009 company CEO Jack Kiefer told Hecht “in an angry tone that he did not want a \’Jew Boy Club\’ in the office” and made it clear that he did not want Hecht observing Jewish holidays, the Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Times Leader reported.\n
Constructing Holocaust memories: Where mind meets museum
Even unfinished and not slated to open in the summer of 2010, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust already is creating a link to memories of the Shoah. (Edmon Rodman)\n
Rabbi accused of rape
A rabbi in Arizona has been extradited to New York on charges that he raped a 7-year-old girl while he was a student at the Conservative movement\’s main rabbinical school.\n\nThe rabbi, Bryan Bramly, was arrested March 23 by U.S. marshals and New York detectives in Arizona. He was charged with two counts of rape in an incident that allegedly occurred a decade ago. He pleaded not guilty and was released on $10,000 bail on March 26.
Man sentenced for ‘Jewish lobby’ list
A Rome court has sentenced a man to six months in jail for having posted a list of 162 academics on his blog and describing them as members of an alleged \”Jewish lobby.\”\n
Survey: Jews back Obama, Bibi
A solid majority of American Jews support Barack Obama\’s and Benjamin Netanyahu\’s handling of U.S.-Israeli relations, according to a new survey.
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