A major Zionist organization has withdrawn an advertisement because it featured images mocking the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Israel will take part in a pilot program to encourage Israeli advertising agencies to allocate more resources to advertising on YouTube.
Israel\’s attorney general has ordered Jerusalem officials to seal off a seven-story Jewish building in eastern Jerusalem.
Government allocations favoring the Orthodox, extra legal protection to Jewish holy sites and Orthodox hegemony over life-cycle events are among Israel\’s religious freedom violations highlighted in a U.S. State Department report.
Eric Greene, regional director of the Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA); Rabbi Jonathan Klein, executive director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE-LA); and Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz walked across the parking lot of a Vons supermarket at the corner of Sepulveda and National boulevards. Stopping at the entrance of the store, Greene took out a piece of paper that displayed in large type a letter grade: C+. Greene taped the sheet to the outside wall of the market.
Beverly Henigson Mitchell, educator and community leader, died Oct. 30 at 86.
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