Israeli divestment gets an F on campus
While the campus Israel divestment movement has garnered much media coverage and induced much hand wringing in the Jewish community, divestment demands have had little effect on American university administrators. Read more »
Wiesel back in S.F. for prize
Elie Wiesel was back in San Francisco three months after being physically assaulted by a Holocaust denier to accept the Koret Prize. Read more »
Remembering Seymour Lipset, renowned sociologist
Seymour Martin "Marty" Lipset, a revered analyst of American society and democracy, died Dec. 31 after years of medical troubles following a stroke. He was 84. Read more »
Like father, like son for Jewish Nobelist
Thirty-seven years after Arthur Kornberg won the Nobel Prize in medicine, his eldest son, Roger, took home this year’s prize in chemistry. Read more »
Neighbors recall former Nazi guard
San Francisco residents spoke out following the revelation that their neighbor Elfriede Rinkel served as a guard at an all-women’s concentration camp. Read more »
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- Israel's announcement of new housing starts during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit was a "disaster," Abraham Foxman said in a rare rebuke.
- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the keynote speaker at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual policy conference.
- Supporters of 11 university students arrested for disrupting a campus speech expressed concern about "Zionist influence" on the disciplinary process.
- The European Parliament called for the immediate release of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
- Jill Biden, wife of the U.S. vice president, toured and praised a New Israel Find-backed program that the philanthropy says would be endangered by a proposed Israeli law.
- Foxman slams Israel on Jerusalem announcement
- Clinton to address AIPAC
- Irvine supporters question ‘Zionist’ influence
- European Parliament calls for Shalit release
- Jill Biden tours joint U.S.-NIF project
- Soldiers charged for Gaza war conduct
- Op-Ed: Lithuanian Jewry needs help to fuel renaissance further
- State Dept. slams Israel on blockade, Palestinians on hatred
- Neo-Nazi march blocked in Dresden
- Mossad chief seen as indispensable on Iran
- Jewish ‘Bachelor’ star marries runner-up
- Oscars night could be glorious for Israeli, Jewish-themed films
- Op-Ed: J Street’s wrong turn
- Agudah expresses ‘anguish’ after Grossman execution
- Police to probe harassment charges against Elon
- Rabbi condemned for ordaining woman



