http://jta.org/news/ en moster@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-11-22T14:54:00-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2008/01/30/106723/california http://jta.org/site/california/#When:04:00:01Z 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. U.S. 2008-01-30T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2007/05/09/101736/wieselsanfrancisco http://jta.org/site/wieselsanfrancisco/#When:04:00:01Z Elie Wiesel was back in San Francisco three months after being physically assaulted by a Holocaust denier to accept the Koret Prize. U.S. 2007-05-09T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2007/01/09/14837/RememberingSeymour http://jta.org/site/RememberingSeymour/#When:04:00:01Z 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. 2007-01-09T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2006/10/05/14517/Likefatherlikeso http://jta.org/site/Likefatherlikeso/#When:04:00:01Z Thirty-seven years after Arthur Kornberg won the Nobel Prize in medicine, his eldest son, Roger, took home this year’s prize in chemistry. 2006-10-05T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2006/09/21/14477/SanFrancisconeighb http://jta.org/site/SanFrancisconeighb/#When:04:00:01Z San Francisco residents spoke out following the revelation that their neighbor Elfriede Rinkel served as a guard at an all-women’s concentration camp. 2006-09-21T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2005/12/21/13541/NewJewishbaseball http://jta.org/site/NewJewishbaseball/#When:04:00:01Z A new Jewish baseball set of 55 cards contains cards for six Jews who have broken into the big leagues recently, six old-time Jewish ballplayers recently unearthed and four women who played in the wartime girls' baseball league. 2005-12-21T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/2002/05/06/8853/FireatOrthodoxOak http://jta.org/site/FireatOrthodoxOak/#When:04:00:01Z A fire that burned part of the exterior of a California synagogue may be the second arson attempt on a Bay Area synagogue in two months. 2002-05-06T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/1999/11/30/13256/BookUSJewishco http://jta.org/site/BookUSJewishco/#When:04:00:01Z A new book by leading demographer Gary Tobin argues that the American Jewish community is far more ethnically diverse than most people realize. 1999-11-30T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/1999/11/30/13475/BookCollegecampus http://jta.org/site/BookCollegecampus/#When:04:00:01Z Though there are fewer raucous anti-Israel rallies these days on college, holding views strongly critical of Israel is not only politically correct but, increasingly, de rigueur in the classroom, a new book says. 1999-11-30T04:00:01-05:00 http://jta.org/news/article/1999/11/30/13497/AsNarniafilmhits http://jta.org/site/AsNarniafilmhits/#When:04:00:01Z As the children's classic "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" hits theaters, many Jews are uneasy with the thinly veiled references to Jesus and the New Testament throughout the film. 1999-11-30T04:00:01-05:00