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Greece-Israel relations soar as ties with Turkey fade

Jewish Journal December 14, 2010

Israel’s ambassador to Greece, Arye Mekel, was on the phone with a journalist earlier this month when the call came in that Israel’s Carmel region was up in flames. The Israeli prime minister needed to speak urgently with his Greek counterpart. Mekel quickly located Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in Poland, where he was meeting with the Polish president. But a Papandreou aide told Mekel the meeting could not be interrupted. “Tell him Bibi Netanyahu wants to speak with him urgently,” Mekel pressed, using the Israeli prime minister’s nickname.

Jewish Dems press AIPAC on START

Jewish Journal December 1, 2010

Top Jewish Democratic senators are pressing AIPAC to back the new START arms reduction treaty with Russia. Four Jewish groups already back Senate ratification of the treaty as a means of cajoling Russia into isolating Iran. Another has suggested that it could prove helpful, and one group opposes it. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee rarely backs such initiatives publicly, but what\’s been notable in this case is that it has not taken a position behind the scenes either.

California’s big chance on the national stage

Raphael J. Sonenshein November 10, 2010

Everybody knows by now that California swam against the tide on Election Day, giving Democrats a near sweep of statewide offices. But what’s even more important is what this will mean for national governance over the next two years.

Katsav to be Indicted, P.A. Prime Minister Resigns

Jewish Journal March 11, 2009

Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav will be indicted on sexual offense charges, the attorney general announced.\n\nMenachem Mazuz said Sunday that Katsav will be indicted on rape and indecent assault charges involving several women who worked closely with him when he served as tourism minister and president. He also will be charged with obstruction of justice.

Proposed USC-Dubai journalism school concerns faculty and community

Bill Boyarsky October 29, 2008

Faculty members at the USC Annenberg School for Communications are deep into a controversy that should be of interest to the Jewish community.
It concerns a proposal from USC for a $3 million contract for Annenberg to work with the American University in Dubai to create a journalism and communications school in the Middle Eastern nation.

Younger Persians seeking greater role in community

Karmel Melamed September 4, 2008

Over the past decades, nearly two dozen local Iranian Jewish groups have been involved with political awareness efforts, but no group until now has seriously pursued or organized communitywide political and civic activism.

The seminar of a lifetime

Chelsea and Hayley Golub May 2, 2008

Who knew that 20 teenagers from Los Angeles could help make a difference in the world?

Organize now against oppression in Burma

Dan Adler May 2, 2008

The U.S. Campaign for Burma puts together an internet and television campaign, with the hope that their messages will reach not only millions of Americans but also the rank-and-file soldiers in Burma, who may not even realize how closely the world is looking at the atrocities many of them are carrying out.

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