Attempted divestment at UCSB and the BDS machine

Published on May 13, 2013

Over the last month the UC Santa Barbara student government has been voting on a resolution to divest from companies doing business with Israel.

Berkeley students vote to divest from Israel latest in a UC string

By Tom Tugend
Published on April 18, 2013

UC Berkeley student senators approved a bill on Thursday calling for the University of California system to divest of stock in American companies that provide technological and weapon support used by the Israeli military in the Palestinian territories.

Cliffhanger divestment vote at UC Santa Barbara

Published on April 18, 2013

A 13-hour marathon meeting at the UC Santa Barbara student senate lasted through the night of April 10-11, culminating in a cliffhanger vote to deny an anti-Israel divestment resolution.

Kristina L.

Published on November 28, 2012

Most Jewish parents don’t name their child Kristina, but Ukraine — when it was still the former Soviet Union — was very secular. “So my parents just gave me what was the cool, European name of the moment, not wanting to give me some very traditional and typical Russian name like Tanya or Svetlana.”

Pro-Israel, pro-Palestinian students at Calif. campus join to blast activist

Published on May 26, 2011

Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups at the University of California, Santa Barbara issued a joint letter condemning a conservative activist’s attacks on the school’s Muslim student group.

Save The Music

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on April 6, 2011

Phil Donney, who graduated in 2006 from Hamilton High School's Music Academy, home to many Jewish students as well as talented students throughout the city, has created this video in the face of huge looming cuts that threaten the very existence of the LAUSD public school Magnet programs, particularly the music programs like Hamilton's.