By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — We cannot be blamed for suspecting that 40-year-old Samantha Woll was stabbed to death at her Detroit home because of the crisis in Israel. Her murder occurred two weeks after Hamas butchered 1,400 Jews in southern Israel, followed by Israel’s merciless bombing of Gaza. She was a prominent political
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
A former Fulbright scholar who did his research in Istanbul, Prof. Robert Bond of Mira Costa College has a nuanced view about the relationship between Turkiye and Israel. [Donald H. Harrison]
(JNS) The Manhattan Beach Middle School, a public school in California, is denying that it asked four Jewish students, all age 11, who were allegedly told “all Israelis and Jews should be killed” by a classmate to sign gag orders. The school is not releasing the findings of its own investigation into the alleged comments,
SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – After learning of an appalling letter sent from the University of California Ethnic Studies Faculty Council that justifies Hamas’ brutal murder, mutilation, beheading and burning alive of women, children, babies, the elderly, the disabled and others, 115 organizations today demanded that the University of California (UC) reject a proposal
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California, Israel, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — We all have, or should have, concern about the prevalence of Jew-hatred on American college campuses. Previously it was couched in anti-Israel phrases, but lately it’s become blatantly about Jews in general. Frankly, this is the attitude in the U.S. towards Jews in the 1930s, coinciding with local
By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — Planned before the onset of the war in Israel, a lecture by Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig, a leading expert on the intersection of mental health and halacha (Jewish law), gained extra relevance on Monday night at Congregation Adat Yeshurun of La Jolla. Rosensweig is the founder of Maaglei Nefesh –
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Israel, Jacob Kamaras, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
Jewish community members are asking various institutions and organizations to indicate their support for Israel and opposition to Hamas in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists who murdered over 1,000 civilians and also took approximately 150 hostages. [SDJW Staff report]
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Israel, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — American Jewish Committee (AJC), the global advocacy organization for the Jewish people, today urged California Schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond to ensure public funds will not support an Ethnic Studies organization or its affiliates who attempt to justify or promote violence and terrorism. AJC signed onto an open letter to Thurmond
In a recent development, several prominent CEOs have declared an intention not to employ Harvard University students who solely attribute the ongoing devastation in the Gaza and Israel conflict to Israel. [Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel]
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Israel, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Prof. Sanford “Sandy” Lakoff, the founding chairman of UC San Diego’s political science department and a $2 million benefactor of Brandeis University where he did his undergraduate work, has died at age 92, San Diego Jewish World has learned. [SDJW staff report]
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Rich Leib knows a thing or two about chairing meetings. He was appointed by Gov. Gray Davis in 1998 to the California Community Colleges Board of Governors, serving as its president from 2001 to 2003. In 2008, he was elected to the Solana Beach School Board, where he served for nearly 12 years, part of that time as that body’s president. In 2018, Gov. Jerry Brown named him to the UC Board of Regents. When the chair of that board, Cecilia V. Estolano, was not reappointed, Leib moved up from vice chair to chair. In July 2022, he was formally appointed to a one-year term as the Regents’ chairman. [Donald H. Harrison]
SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) – In a newly exposed letter, University of California (UC) faculty tasked with developing California ethnic studies high school standards referred to Jews as “highly funded lobby groups” and attacked attempts to prevent antisemitic materials from becoming part of ethnic studies courses as “censorship” and “racism.” The letter, written by
(Press Release) American Jewish Committee (AJC), ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, and Potomac Law Group announced on Monday they filed suit on behalf of the Brandeis Center and its membership arm, So-CUE (Southern Californians for Unbiased Education), comprised of Orange County and Santa Ana residents, against
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California, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Eventually, Lizerbram’s activities both as a donor and as a member of the local JNF board led to an invitation to serve on the national board. Over the next 20 years, he served under such national JNF presidents as Ron Lauder and Jeffrey Levine, until he was elected as the national organization’s president in October 2017. [Donald H. Harrison]