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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 »
New Jewish baseball card set released
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. Read more »
Oakland shul fire may be arson
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. Read more »
Book highlights community diversity
A new book by leading demographer Gary Tobin argues that the American Jewish community is far more ethnically diverse than most people realize. Read more »
Book: Campuses hostile to Israel
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. Read more »
The lion, the witch and the Jesus allegory
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. Read more »
RSS Feed Breaking News
Updated 11/22/09 @ 05:02PM EDT
- Hundreds of Jewish and non-Jewish Brazileans protested in Rio de Janeiro on the eve of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit.
- "Real progress" has been made in negotiations to release a captured Israeli soldier, President Shimon Peres confirmed.
- The online auction Web site eBay said it took down an ad offering biological samples from Benito Mussolini before anyone could bid on them.
- Turkey has given Israeli defense contractors 50 days to deliver 10 promised drone aircraft.
- Iran began an air defense drill designed to protect its nuclear program, Iranian state television reported.
- Brazileans protest Ahmadinejad visit
- Peres: ‘Real progress’ in Shalit talks
- The Mofaz plan—state now, ask questions later
- eBay removes Mussolini brain, blood samples
- Turkey demands delivery of Israeli drones
- Iran begins air defense drill
- More Israeli recruits seeking to join combat units
- Haredim return to protest Jerusalem Intel factory
- Female Orthodox scholars helping women talk about sex
- Obama half-brother has Jewish roots
- Lieberman: Fort Hood could be terror attack
- J Street confab shows generational divide on Israel
- What really happened at the Reform biennial in Toronto
- Rubashkin convicted on 86 charges
- Pro-Israel fliers confiscated at campus speech
- Obama shifts to Israel’s corner, but tries not to show it
