Rabbis for Human Rights-North America has changed its name and ended its financial and formal ties with Rabbis for Human Rights in Israel.
A memo linking the Palestinian Authority to a 2002 suicide attack that was accidentally handed over to attorneys for the families of two American victims should be returned, a U.S. judge ruled.
Eddie Goldstein, longtime resident of Boyle Heights, died on Jan. 5. Goldstein is remembered as having been the last Jewish resident from the original Jewish community of Boyle Heights, living there for almost eight decades. According to the LA Times, his funeral was attended by several family members and a large group of his Mexican American neighbors.
Israeli researchers say they have discovered one of the ways that breast cancer cells turn on their aggressive cancerous behavior.
Chuck Hagel added three major Jewish Democrats to his list of endorsers, clearing his way to likely confirmation as secretary of defense.
Hadassah transferred $10 million to Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem to help cover its subsidiary\’s $50 million deficit.
Despite early predictions of rain, the weather cooperated in full. The Jan. 13 festivities and ceremony at the Chabad of the Conejo (COTC) took place on a brisk, chilly day with a cloudless and pristine sky over Agoura Hills — the kind of day that the late Rabbi Mordechai Bryski, in his home of Brooklyn, N.Y., would have envied.
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