Judaism

Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. State Capitol correspondent Steven Greenhut reported on Page A-2 that State Sen. Mark Leno’s bill to require a kill switch that would enable owners to turn off stolen cellphones is running into controversy. Approved by an Assembly committee, […]

Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. Two prominent Jewish philanthropic families will have their names forever linked to cancer treatment at a hospital being built on the UCSD campus in La Jolla. The hospital is called the Jacobs Medical Center, after the family of

Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. State Capitol correspondent Steven Greenhut noted in a page A-2 story that State Senate President pro tempore Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) had exulted in 2010 following passage of Proposition 25, which reduced from two-thirds to a majority the number

Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. State Senator Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, was pictured on page 2, in an AP photo taken during the budget debate, in a discussion with Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, and Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar.

Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. The defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Virginia Republican primary election last Tuesday, June 10, continues to reverberate. In the U-T’s “Winners and Losers” column, an item about Cantor was at the top of the

Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. Matt Lauer, who considers himself “half-Jewish” because of his father, has signed a multiple year contract extension as host of NBC’s Today show, the U-T reports in its “People” section. * Three Jewish teenage Yeshiva students , kidnapped

Editor’s Note: The full articles alluded to in this report may be accessed via the U-T website. Two Jewish Democratic officeholders from Los Angeles – Congressman Adam Schiff and Assemblyman Richard Bloom – are in the thick of the controversy over whether it is either ethical or humane to keep orcas and cetaceans in captivity.  

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Congresswoman Susan Davis was among those questioning Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel about the trade of Taliban operatives for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, at a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, June 11. According to a U-T story by Mark Walker, Davis wanted to know if there wasn’t a way