ADL Los Angeles Regional Director Jeffrey Abrams began the webinar noting that there was a 40% increase in antisemitic incidents from 2016-2020 in California; more recently, there was a 115% increase in antisemitic incidents across the country from May 11-31 following the escalation between Israel and Hamas over that timeframe.
During the process of writing the book, she became close to an Afghan women’s rights activist who was also the director of the Afghan Women’s Fund, a non-profit organization that advocates for the rights of women in Afghanistan and establishes vocational and educational programs for them.
Al Brooks, has been in the newsstand business for 44 years. He opened his first store on Fairfax Avenue across the street from Canter’s Deli, and at one point, he had locations on the Third Street Promenade and in San Francisco. He’s been at the Beverly Drive location since 1984.
Moderated by Rabbi Ilana Grinblat of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California, the virtual Zoom meeting started with remarks by President and CEO of The Federation Jay Sanderson. “This is a bittersweet experience for me because as you know this will be the last time speaking to you at this wonderful event as president and CEO of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles,” Sanderson said, referring to his leaving the post at the end of the year.
Since the pandemic began, in the United States, more than 9,000 hate crimes have been reported against Asian Americans – two-thirds of them women – supposedly faulting them for COVID-19.
The heads of school at three Los Angeles Jewish schools, Milken Community School, Kadima Day School and Heschel Day School, all emphasized the importance of in-person learning.
Indeed, none of us knew what to say at the sight of a giant, cooked trout head next to a cup of wine. My brother-in-law explained that it was a North African custom symbolizing a hope to be at the metaphoric head, rather than the tail, of the year.
Alums for Campus Fairness published the survey on August 30 after interviewing 312 students and 194 alumni from March 25-June 14. The survey found that 94% of respondents viewed campus antisemitism as a problem today and in recent years and 74% of those viewed it as “a very serious problem.”
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