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October 13, 2010

30 Years After hears calls for political, social action

Karmel Melamed October 13, 2010

Despite being caught in the middle of a labor dispute involving the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel and its workers, the Los Angeles-based Iranian Jewish political and civic action group 30 Years After (30YA) welcomed roughly 1,200 people, most of them local Iranian Jews, to its second biennial conference on Oct. 10. About a dozen picketers from UNITE HERE Local 11 lined up outside the Hyatt during the early morning hours, along with protesting members of the Jewish Labor Committee, but despite their presence, the conference moved forward uninterrupted.

Nazi hunter Zuroff on trial for libel

Jeffrey Hensiek October 13, 2010

Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff is fighting libel charges filed by an alleged war criminal in Hungary. The case, being heard in a Budapest courtroom, began Oct. 8 and is scheduled to continue through a final hearing Dec. 16. It is likely the first time that a man under investigation for mass murder has sued his accusers, Zuroff told JTA.

Frenemies

Rob Eshman October 13, 2010

Last Friday, I spent a wonderful hour speaking by phone with Harry McPherson. He was President Lyndon Johnson’s chief counsel, and it was his good luck — though it may not have seemed it at the time — to have landed in Tel Aviv on June 5, 1967, just hours before the sounds of bursting artillery shells rocked him awake.

Ahmadinejad in Lebanon speaks of ‘Zionist enemy’

Jeffrey Hensiek October 13, 2010

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, met by cheering crowds in Lebanon, said his country and Israel\’s northern neighbor \”endorse a bitter struggle against Zionist aggression.\” Ahmadinejad arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday and immediately met with Lebanese President Michael Suleiman at the presidential palace. During a joint news conference, Ahmadinejad said he felt \”as though I am at home, in my homeland among my brothers.\”

Russian Jewish center vandalized twice

Jeffrey Hensiek October 13, 2010

A Jewish center in central Russia was vandalized for the second time in a week. Anti-Semitic pictures and epithets were found Tuesday painted on the walls of the center in Barnaul, Radio Free Europe reported. Similar graffiti had been found Oct. 7 on the building, which opened in January 2008. Police are using fingerprints taken from the center\’s walls in their investigation.

Jewish author wins Booker Prize

Jeffrey Hensiek October 13, 2010

A British Jewish author won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction for a comic book about what it means to be Jewish today. Howard Jacobson, who was shortlisted for the prize this year for the first time, was named the winner of the $80,000 prize Tuesday night for \”The Finkler Question.\” The book is about \”love, loss and male friendship, and explores what it means to be Jewish today,\” according to a news release from the prize committee.

Israeli Arabs ignore summons probing flotilla

Jeffrey Hensiek October 13, 2010

Two Israeli Arabs who sailed with a flotilla of ships that attempted to break Israel\’s Gaza blockade ignored a subpoena to appear before the Israeli commission probing the incident.

Argentine minister apologizes for Holocaust allusion

Jeffrey Hensiek October 13, 2010

Argentina\’s economics minister apologized for using Holocaust imagery in a complaint against two journalists. Amado Boudou reportedly said he used an \”out-of-place metaphor\” earlier this month in comparing two journalists critical of his administration with \”those who were in charge of cleaning gas chambers during the Holocaust,\” the Buenos Aires Herald reported.

Jewish groups fight repeal of clean energy law in Calif.

Jeffrey Hensiek October 13, 2010

A coalition of Jewish organizations in California is waging a campaign against a ballot proposition they say would hurt efforts to wean the United States off foreign oil. Proposition 23 effectively would repeal the Global Warming Solutions Act, a California law that established a timetable to bring the state in line with environmental standards set in the Kyoto Protocol. While the United States is not party to that treaty, California has sought to go beyond U.S. requirements and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020.

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