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December 7, 2016
Calendar: December 9-15
Hear professors Steven Windmueller (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Los Angeles) and Fred Woods (Brigham Young University) discuss “Political Trends in the Mormon and Jewish Communities” at a Shabbat service and program, part of the LDS-Jewish Academic Dialogue Project.
Letters to the Editor: Pirkei Avot, Europe and Donald Trump
I just saw the Jewish Journal’s cover (“What’s in the Book?” Dec. 2). And love it. I have taught Pirkei Avot twice a week for the last 27 years and for all of my business and life.
L.A.-based Holocaust claims lawyer sues FBI over Clinton warrant
E. Randol Schoenberg was confused when he read a New York Times article in the waning days of the presidential campaign reporting the FBI had obtained a warrant to seize new material in the Hillary Clinton email case.
Remote Brandeis-Bardin area may need cleanup, state officials see no health threat
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has verified that it has detected what it calls low levels of chemicals in soil in a remote area of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute in Simi Valley, downhill from a well-known former nuclear and rocket testing site.
Ellison would be a ‘disaster’ as DNC’s leader, Saban says
Haim Saban, a major Democratic Party funder, said Rep. Keith Ellison’s election as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) would be a “disaster” for the relationship between Jews and the party, signaling a looming crisis between the party’s progressives and the centrist pro-Israel community.
Magdalena Kasprzycki, World War II spy, dies at 94
Magdalena Kasprzycki, who as a teenager in Poland spied on the Nazis on behalf of the Polish Underground during World War II, died Nov. 22. She was 94.
Will Trump weaken the Americans With Disabilities Act?
On a sunny July afternoon in 1990, on the West Lawn of the White House, Republican President George H.W. Bush signed into law the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), the nation’s first comprehensive civil rights law addressing the needs of people with disabilities, prohibiting discrimination in employment, public services, public accommodations and telecommunications.
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