Commanding respect vs. demanding respect
Jewish Journal
February 1, 2012
“For not as a human sees [does the Lord see]; humans see only what is visible, but the Lord sees into the heart.” — I Samuel 16:7
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February 1, 2012
Pearl lecture features New Yorker editor Remnick
Susan Freudenheim
February 1, 2012
“I learned a lot from WikiLeaks,” David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker magazine, told a full auditorium at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management when he spoke on Jan. 30 at the 10th annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Pearl Foundation, in partnership with Hillel at UCLA and UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. “One thing I learned,” he said, “is that our diplomats are not bad.”
Bipartisan group presses U.S. to pressure Iran
Jewish Journal
February 1, 2012
A bipartisan group of foreign policy hawks called on the Obama administration to intensify pressure on Iran by increasing the U.S. military profile in the Persian Gulf and providing arms to Israel that could facilitate a strike on the Islamic Republic.
Germany donates $13 million to Yad Vashem
Jewish Journal
February 1, 2012
The German government will donate $13 million to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Israel over the next 10 years.
My Single Peeps: Candace B.
Jewish Journal
February 1, 2012
Candace was raised in the Valley, a typical middle-class Jewish upbringing, where her family raised her with the hope that she’d do better financially than their generation. But she was never typical.
Survivor: Ernest Braunstein
Jane Ulman
February 1, 2012
Ernest Braunstein was walking back to his barracks at the Bor labor camp, in Yugoslavia, when he spotted a man suspended from a post by his wrists, which had been tied tightly behind the man’s back. He had passed out, and Ernest brought him water. A guard, witnessing the interaction, gave Ernest the same punishment. When Ernest blacked out from the pain, the guard lowered him, revived him and hung him again, repeatedly. After three hours, Ernest estimates, he was sent back to his barracks, where his friends surreptitiously fed him until he recovered. To this day, he can lift his right arm only to his shoulder.
January shatters mark for Israel’s wettest month
Jewish Journal
February 1, 2012
Rainfall in the month of January broke Israeli records.
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