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French Views Split on Halimi’s Murder

Brett Kline March 9, 2006

Some French remain convinced that the barbaric torture and murder of Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jew, was not an anti-Semitic hate crime.
The kidnap murder has been declared an anti-Semitic act by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy but also a violent crime whose motive was money. Since Halimi was found abandoned in a suburban train station Feb. 13 and died on the way to the hospital, the affair has been the talk of France.

Class Notes – National Nachas for Shalhevet

Julie Gruenbaum Fax March 9, 2006

Five brief pieces, on the following: Shalhevet School\’s recent winning streak, Camp Ramah\’s new solar panels, a five-day summer workshop that shows teachers how to use studying the holocaust to teach morality, an opportunity to serve abroad as part of the \”Jewish Peace Corps,\” and a recent Prejudice Awareness Summit at the University of Judaism.

Cartoon Tension at UC Irvine

Marc Ballon March 9, 2006

The showing of three cartoons of the prophet Muhammad at a conference last week on radical Islam at UC Irvine attracted a near-capacity crowd of about 400, including leaders of some local Jewish groups, while protesters demonstrated outside.

A Definite Maybe

Jill Stewart March 9, 2006

Can Los Angeles\’ schools be fixed by a man who loves to be loved, who with his union allies opposed education reform and whose wife is an educator with no presence in the fight for reform?

The Swastika in My Binder

Elizabeth Chase December 1, 2005

I am sitting in physiology class. The teacher assigns a lab report and I open my planner. I see something doodled on the page.

I have a swastika in my planner.

A Student Oasis on the Rise

Amy Klein July 21, 2005

Entering university can be a tough transition, especially for Israelis, who have probably spent the previous decade of their lives prepping for the army, serving in the army and recovering from the army.

\”Once you get out of the army, everything you used to study, to stand for, is gone; religiously, Zionistically –any kind of idealism,\” says Tzvicka Deutch, a Ben Gurion University (BGU) grad student who won third place in the popular Israeli reality show, \”The Ambassador,\” in which young Israelis competed to represent the Jewish state in its worldwide public relations efforts.

MATCH Puts Giving in Students’ Hands

Karen Alexander February 17, 2005

At Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills, a unique program is giving teenagers the opportunity to put those lessons to work by serving as board members of their own philanthropic foundation.

B’nai Mitzvah for the Young at Heart

Andrea Adelson September 9, 2004

Last February, a class of 17 retirees jumped at the chance to pursue a Jewish rite of passage bypassed in their youth by circumstance or cultural rigidity.

Teens Build a Bridge Beyond the Past

Ellie Kahn May 27, 2004

On April 19, 12 German teenagers left Heidelberg, flew west for about 6,000 miles, disembarked at LAX, and entered the lives and homes of 12 Jewish American teenagers. None of the 24 teens knew quite what to expect.

During their two-week stay in homes of Kol Tikvah congregants, the German students visited local high schools, attended Shabbat services, took part in a Yom HaShoah program, tried a range of new foods and looked everywhere for Tom Cruise.

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