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April 14, 2010

Israel focuses on Iran at nuclear summit

Israel\’s delegation to President Obama\’s nuclear security summit emphasized in its summary statement Iran\’s threat and the need to confront it with regional coordination.

Is UC Irvine safe for Jews?

Jewish students could hardly contain their excitement as they gathered to celebrate the opening of the new Hillel center at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), in February. Calling it a “symbol for Jewish students,” Jordan Fruchtman, Hillel Foundation of Orange County executive director, described the 1,400-square-foot facility across the street from campus as “a place where students feel good and create memories that build a strong Jewish identity.”

Steven Levitan’s Home Life Is Fodder for ‘Modern Family’

“All of our stories come from real life,” Steven Levitan, co-creator and executive producer of ABC’s “Modern Family,” told 1,200 fans at a recent Paley Center for Media event in Beverly Hills. Asking his wife, Krista, to stand, he told the PaleyFest group that she really did smash his expensive television remote control into a thousand pieces and left it by their front door for him to find. He then introduced their son, Griffin, whom he was obliged to shoot with a BB gun after Griffin shot his cousin; and daughter, Hannah, whose video chat with her friends caught him wearing nothing but his underwear.

Schmaltz and Grebenes: A Medical Conspiracy

For thousands of years, the Jewish people have faced annihilation — promulgated by evil societies, notorious world leaders and the general passivity of\nglobal citizenry. But as deadly as our enemies have been, our diet has often imperiled us as well. Schmaltz (rendered chicken fat) and grebenes (fried chicken skin) and our generally high-fat, low-exercise lifestyles endanger Jews, and therefore the Jewish people.

U.S. Companies Should Disclose Iran Ties

Iran’s president recently announced that his nation has started to process highly enriched uranium and is now a “nuclear state.” This is a chilling\nreminder of the threat Iran poses.

Forgetting to Remember

As I squeezed into my seat at Sunday’s Citywide Holocaust Remembrance Day at Pan Pacific Park, I listened as the woman next to me addressed a man in
the row in front of us.

Steinem Celebrated for Reproductive Rights Support

Gloria Steinem, the world-renowned feminist activist, writer and founder of Ms. Magazine, received an award from the Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP) during a sold-out fund-raiser at the home of Eric Shore and Fred Paul in Beverly Hills on March 16.

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