university of california Archives – Page 8 of 8

Briefs: City Council approves Weiss Iran divestment bill; UC puts Jewish High Holidays on calendar

Jewish Journal June 29, 2007

Community briefs.

Briefs: Spielberg to press Hu Jintao on Darfur; U of California vs. Shabbat; Weiss recall effort kic

Jewish Journal May 25, 2007

Community briefs.

UC Suspends Israel Program

Tom Tugend April 11, 2002

The University of California has suspended its junior year abroad program in Israel and is recalling its 27 remaining students there, though not all are heeding the call.\n\nCiting \”dramatically escalating violence\” in the region, UC made the recall official on Thursday, April 11 for its students enrolled mainly at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University.\n\nAn additional 28 UC students, who had enrolled at the Israeli universities last fall, have already returned because they had completed the semester or for personal reasons.

A Place to Call Home

Orit Arfa October 25, 2001

On his first day of work in 1985 as executive director of the Hillel Foundation at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Rabbi Stephen Cohen received a telling welcome.

Cohen, a former New Yorker, stepped off the plane and took a cab straight to the University Religion Center (URC), where the offices of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life are housed. A social worker, prompted by the rabbi\’s forlorn and scruffy look, invited him to take part in that day\’s breakfast program for the homeless.

Cohen, 28 at the time, laughed and explained his position.