Israel’s SodaStream inks deal with KitchenAid
Jewish Journal
June 18, 2013
The Israeli company SodaStream agreed to develop a home system for making carbonated drinks for KitchenAid appliances.
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UC Regents nominee supports BDS
Tom Tugend
June 13, 2013
Sadia Saifuddin, a junior at UC Berkeley, has been nominated to become a student member of the powerful University of California Board of Regents, the governing body that determines policies for the 10-campus system.
Lies, Apartheid and BS
David Suissa
June 6, 2013
I never thought I’d ever sit around a Shabbat table talking about bulls—, a word we don’t usually print in the Journal. But there I was recently at my friend David Brandes’ house, sitting across from the prominent philosopher and former Princeton University professor Harry Frankfurt, author of “On Bullshit” (2005).
BDS: Frustration, but with hope
Jewish Journal
May 29, 2013
Senate Bill 160, which calls for targeted divestment from companies that profit off of human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, passed this last week in the University of California, Berkeley, student senate.
Hawking and Mohammed
David Suissa
May 13, 2013
There was so much Jewish outrage last week in the wake of Professor Steven Hawking’s decision to join the academic boycott against Israel, it’s hard to know where to start.
Attempted divestment at UCSB and the BDS machine
Jewish Journal
May 13, 2013
Over the last month the UC Santa Barbara student government has been voting on a resolution to divest from companies doing business with Israel.
BDS campaign spreads with little effect
Tom Tugend
April 24, 2013
The multinational boycott campaign targeting Israel, aimed at stopping the country’s perceived injustices against Palestinians, has a venerable history, but the movement showed a new spurt of activism this month.
Berkeley students vote to divest from Israel latest in a UC string
Tom Tugend
April 18, 2013
UC Berkeley student senators approved a bill on Thursday calling for the University of California system to divest of stock in American companies that provide technological and weapon support used by the Israeli military in the Palestinian territories.
Are critics of Israeli occupation getting nervous?
David Suissa
March 19, 2013
It’s a sure sign of nervousness when people start using the vocabulary of absolute certainty — when they refuse to allow for even the possibility of debate.
Letters to the Editor: Prager, vocational skills, BDS movement, SpaceIL
Jewish Journal
February 27, 2013
In a recent article, Dennis Prager wrote an oversimplified and sweeping criticism of self-esteem (“Behavior Matters Most,” Feb. 15). He claims that self-esteem promotes the idea that feelings are more important than actions.
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