Community Briefs

August 27, 2008

USC Muslim group removes anti-Semitic passage from Web site

When Rabbi Aron Hier, director of campus outreach at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Reut Cohen of the Horowitz Freedom Center discovered the passage, they sent a letter to Alan Casden, a USC trustee and co-chair of the Wiesenthal Center's board, urging him to have the university remove that portion of the Hadith

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Alperts endow Jewish studies at CSULB, ADL en Espanol

Ten years after its creation, the Jewish studies program at Cal State Long Beach has received a $1 million endowment for a chaired professor.

Latino pastors visit a YMCA in JerusalemTuesday, August 12, 2008

Jewish Community Foundation announces $1.6 million in grants to ‘Cutting Edge’ orgs

The largest recipients of the Jewish Community Foundation's (JCF) Cutting Edge Grants, announced this week and totaling $1.6 million, were three programs promoting Jewish identity and connection with Israel through art, music and community leadership

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Local teens to compete for gold at Maccabi Games

At the same time Southland Jewish Olympians like Jason Lezak and Dara Torres medaled in Beijing, the next generation of local athletes was preparing to compete in events of their own.

Jordan Farmar, a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers and 
the only Jewish player in the NBA, demonstrates his 
dribbling skills at a basketball clinic he conducted for 
Israeli and Palestinian children in Kiryat Gat on Aug. 5, 2008. 
The boys participate in the Peres Center for Peace Sports Schools.
Photo by Nir Keidar.Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Laker Jordan Farmar starts peace ball clinic in Israel; India, and Korea and Israel @ 60

Monday, August 4, 2008

Temple Beth Haverim bankrupt, ADL condemns rise in anti-Semitic incidents

Temple Beth Haverim, an Agoura Hills-based Conservative congregation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week in an effort to restructure its debts.

Joey Lutz hiking in Malibu, July 2007Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Briefs: Body of Santa Monica teacher found in Panama, campers leave the mountains to heal the bay

Joey Lutz, an English teacher at Santa Monica High School and a central leader in a Muslim-Jewish dialogue, was found dead Sunday in Panama

Cantor Aviva RosenbloomWednesday, July 23, 2008

Feminist cantor retires from long-term post

If words don't come easily to Rosenbloom, it's because she has spent most of her life singing. As early as age 4, she jumped up on a coffee table at home and sang an Israeli folk song for her mother and father

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Briefs: Comedy writer Ross endows UCLA Yiddish chair, Hadassah official focuses on fundraising

Veteran comedy writer and producer Michael "Mickey" Ross has donated $4 million to endow an academic chair in Yiddish language and culture at UCLA.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Briefs: Drumming up support for Iran divestment, Pali High students win B’nai B’rith scholarship

Nearly a dozen L.A.-area Iranian Muslim news media outlets packed a room at UCLA's Covel Commons on June 29 for a press conference held by freshman state Assemblyman Joel Anderson (R-El Cajon) regarding new Iran divestment legislation he introduced earlier this year.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Spielberg to give $1 million to Philly Jewish museum

The Associated Press reports that Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation will give $1 million to the National Museum of American Jewish History to build a new building in Philadelphia.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

UCLA dorm kosher meal plan discontinued, Jewish Little League sends All-Star team to Israel

After only one year, UCLA's meal plan offering hot kosher meals to students has come to an end. The failure of students to sign up for this dining option is in part the reason for its demise, as participation dwindled from five students in the fall trimester, to only three in the winter, and eventually one lone student in the spring

Thursday, June 12, 2008

USC Hillel rabbi leaves for PJA, Johnson loses judicial race

News briefs from around Los Angeles

Friday, June 6, 2008

LAPD seeks tips in identifying synagogue vandals, releases surveillance video

Police are requesting the public's help in identifying the perpetrator of synagogue vandalism. On December 5, someone spraypainted a devil on the back wall of Congregation Beth Israel in Los Angeles. The vandalism was captured on video, and police believe a citizen will be able to identify the perpetrator.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

New UCLA program puts spotlight on Mediterranean Jewish life

UCLA has established an academic program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies, focusing on the rich history of Jewish life and culture in Italy, as well as in France, Spain, the Balkans, Greece, North Africa, Egypt and aspects of Israel's past

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Berman and Waxman endorse Obama, Reward offered in NoHo attack

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Briefs: Drug and immigration bust at kosher meat plant, Israel says no Hamas truce without Schalit

Briefs

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Rabbis work to build ties of U.S. Jews to Israel

Twelve years ago, newly arrived at the Reconstructionist Malibu Jewish Center, Rabbi Judith Halevy gave a sermon about her long-term commitment to Israel, about how much she cares about the Jewish state.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Briefs: Methodists don’t ‘divest,’ Jewish groups mobilize for Myanmar, Reno TV anchor sues

Briefs

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Briefs: Governator opens new Saban Free Clinic, Weisenthal Center pressures Swiss on Iran deal

News Briefs

(From left) Marci Goldberg, Adat Chaverim president-elect; Rabbi Miriam Jerris, community development director, SHJ and president of the Association for Humanistic Rabbis; and Bonnie Cousens, SHJ executive director. Photo by Jodi GoldfingerThursday, April 17, 2008

Humanistic Judaism Society ponders growth question

In the 1960s, when "God is dead" debates were fashionable on college campuses, graffiti scrawled on a Harvard dorm wall proclaimed, "God isn't dead. He just doesn't want to get involved."

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