Former prime minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday harshly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on the stalled peace process with the Palestinians.
I want to correct an error in the ad placed by the RJC [Republican Jewish Coalition] and NWC [National Women’s Committee of the RJC] in which they state: “Barbara Boxer remained silent as the Obama administration pressured Israel …” (Oct. 8).
“Worth a Thousand Words: Images of Jewish Reinvention on American’s Pacific Edge” brings together Ellen Eisenberg, Ava F. Kahn and William Toll, co-authors of “Jews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Community on America’s Edge,” for a lecture and slideshow examining the Jewish social impact on the West Coast from the 1800s to the present. The event kicks off with a reception and book signing. Tue. 4:30-7 p.m. Free. Loyola Marymount University, University Hall 1000, 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles. (310) 338-2806. lmu.edu.
A federal judge issued a worldwide injunction Tuesday stopping enforcement of the \”don\’t ask, don\’t tell\” policy, ending the military\’s 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops.
Brandeis University’s ambitious JDATA project has the power to transform the process of understanding and funding Jewish education. Or it could be an expensive bust.
When the Republican candidate for New York governor, Carl Paladino, addressed an Orthodox crowd on Sunday about his opposition to gay pride parades and how children shouldn’t be “brainwashed” into thinking being gay is OK, he clearly thought he’d find a receptive audience.
Bet Tzedek named Sandor \”Sandy\” Samuels as its new president CEO, tapping the community leader and financial industry legal expert to head the Los Angeles-based Jewish public interest law firm that serves nearly 12,000 disadvantaged clients every year.
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