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February 27, 2013
EU diplomats recommend economic sanctions against settlements
European Union diplomats in eastern Jerusalem have recommended economic sanctions against Jewish settlements in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.
The Pope and Jewish Communal Professionals: Staying in a Job too Long? The Need for Term Limits!
Oxford students reject boycott Israel motion
A motion calling for blanket sanctions against Israel was rejected by the Oxford University Students’ Union.
Two Palestinians end hunger strike that fueled protests
Two Palestinian prisoners whose hunger strike stoked clashes in the West Bank have ended their protest after Israel agreed to release them in May, a Palestinian official said on Wednesday.
A day of Holocaust memories
When 89-year-old Max Stodel arrived for a Feb. 17 program at the Skirball Cultural Center marking the run-up to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) 20th anniversary in April, he didn’t come alone.
Groups tout youth grants
As the Jim Joseph Foundation, a San Francisco-based foundation that focuses on Jewish education, wraps up three major grants in the Los Angeles area, its beneficiaries are touting their programs’ successes as models for Jewish funding.
Ceremony honors Jewish vet killed in World War II
For nearly 40 years, the Purple Heart medal sat locked in a box, left behind in a West Hollywood apartment building’s laundry room.
Zionist leader offers doubt about Shangri-La verdict
After the Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica and its owner, Tehmina Adaya, were found guilty in August of discriminating against a group of Jews who had come to a party held on the hotel pool’s deck, Steven Goldberg, national vice chair of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), announced his group’s intention to protest outside the hotel.
LimmudLA reboots — minus staff, 2013 conference
This year, for the first time since 2008, February came and went without a LimmudLA conference.
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