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October 25, 2010

LIVE BROADCAST: Building the Jewish Service Movement

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UPDATE: This is a recording of a live broadcast from Tuesday Oct. 26, 2010.

On Tuesday, Oct. 26, at 4:15 pm, JewishJournal.com will broadcast LIVE from The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.  Join us for “Building the Jewish Service Movement: Making Service a Defining Part of American Jewish Life” featuring Repair the World CEO Jon Rosenberg.

Sponsored by The Jumpstart Innovation Forum

Jon Rosenberg

Repair the World is a new organization that works to inspire American Jews and their communities to give their time and effort to serve those in need. Through a variety of programs that include grant making, advocacy and training, Repair the World works with existing and emerging organizations — Jewish and secular — and with American Jews — engaged in the community and not — to develop high-quality service opportunities and build an inspired Jewish community engaged in service.

Jon has a 20-year background in public education reform, civil rights, criminal justice, and related fields. Before joining Repair the World, he was the founding Executive Director of Roads to Success, a college and career readiness program for low-income youth. He has held senior positions at Edison Schools, the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, and The Children’s Aid Society. Jon has served as an adjunct faculty member at Teachers College and Columbia Law School, where he taught Children and the Law, and Education Law. He is the former Chair of the NYC Bar Association’s Education Law Committee. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia School of Law, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife and two children.

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Godard to be a no-show, film Academy announces

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Jean-Luc Godard, the controversial French-Swiss film director, will not come to Los Angeles to accept an honorary Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday (Oct. 25).

The news elicited little surprise in Hollywood and came exactly two months after the Academy’s invitation to Godard kicked off a lively discussion about the New Wave auteur’s Godard to be a no-show, film Academy announces Read More »

Jews, Arabs clash in Safed

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Police moved in to prevent further clashes between Jewish and Arab residents in Safed after the Israeli city’s chief rabbi asked Jews not to rent to non-Jews.

Orthodox Jews threw stones Friday night at Arab students who rent apartments in Safed. On Saturday night, amid more clashes between Orthodox Jewish residents and Arab students, a Palestinian flag was hung on the top of a renovated mosque near the northern city’s central market.

Two Israeli groups with U.S. affiliates called late last week for the criminal investigation of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Safed’s chief rabbi, following his call for Jews not to rent apartments to non-Jews.

The Israel Religious Action Center, an affiliate of the Reform movement, and the Abraham Fund, a group that promotes Jewish-Arab coexistence in Israel and that has a U.S. office, sent separate letters to Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein calling on him to launch a criminal incitement probe of Eliyahu, Haaretz reported.

Eliyahu last week joined a call to keep Arabs out of Safed that apparently was prompted by fears that a medical school slated to open in the city will lead to an influx of non-Jews.

Amnon Be’eri-Sulitzeanu, the co-executive director of the Abraham Fund, told JTA that his group sent a letter to Weinstein and also to the civil service chief, Shmuel Hollander, demanding an investigation that could lead to Eliyahu’s dismissal.

“He’s a state worker, a member of the Chief Rabbinate and a member of the municipal rabbinate,” Be’eri-Sulitzeanu told JTA. “He can’t express himself in a racist way. We want him fired.”

Ami Nahshon, the fund’s president based in New York, said he backed the letters.

Spokesmen for the Religious Action Center, the Washington, D.C.-based sister to the Israel Religious Action Center, did not return calls from JTA seeking comment.

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Pa. prof’s rhetoric comes under lawmakers’ scrutiny

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Two Pennsylvania lawmakers have written to the president of a private university in the state about a professor who made anti-Israel statements at a rally.

Kaukab Siddique, 67, an associate professor of English and literature at Lincoln University in Oxford, said at a Labor Day rally in Washington, D.C., that “We must stand united to defeat, to destroy, to dismantle Israel—if possible by peaceful means.” He added, “Dear brothers and sisters, unite and rise up against this hydra-headed monster which calls itself Zionism.”

Following last week’s release of a videotape of the rally, state Sens. Daylin Leach and Anthony Hardy Williams, both Philadelphia-area Democrats, wrote to Lincoln President Ivory Nelson to find out if his “anti-Semitic diatribes” were being heard as well inside the university classrooms at the historically black university.

“We support academic freedom, and certainly a professor has the right to criticize Israel, or any other entity or policy he wishes,” they wrote. But, the lawmakers said, ‘the Holocaust is not a theory or opinion. It is historically documented fact, denied only by those with a hateful or anti-Semitic agenda.”

Siddique, a Muslim originally from Pakistan, had questioned the validity of the Holocaust at the rally, according to reports, as he has done in published articles.

A tenured professor who has taught at the university since 1985, Siddique told the Philadelphia Inquirer that “I got a little fired up and said a few things that were pretty strong. That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t say them again.” He also said that he is “against Israel, not against Jews.”

Lincoln, while a private university, receives public funding and offers reduced tuition for Pennsylvania residents. Notable graduates include Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes and Cab Calloway.

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