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A re-screening of “Beneath the Helmet” at UC Irvine in wake of protests
Ryan Torok
June 6, 2016
“Beneath the Helmet: From High School to the Home Front” a documentary film centering on five Israeli soldiers and produced by the pro-Israel organization, Jerusalem U, will screen at University of California, Irvine (UCI) on Wednesday as part of what a press release is calling “A Safe Space for Free Speech event.”\n
Searching for utopia in Orange County
Jewish Journal
July 21, 2014
I used people\’s memories, and pen and paper, to time travel to the Nixon era
Court upholds conviction of Irvine protesters
Jewish Journal
March 4, 2014
A California state appeals court has upheld the conviction of 10 students at the University of California, Irvine, who disrupted a 2010 speech by then-Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren.
BDS campaign spreads with little effect
Tom Tugend
April 24, 2013
The multinational boycott campaign targeting Israel, aimed at stopping the country’s perceived injustices against Palestinians, has a venerable history, but the movement showed a new spurt of activism this month.
Mark Yudof on Jews, Israel and his UC presidency
Tom Tugend
April 18, 2013
When Mark G. Yudof arrived at University of California headquarters in Oakland in 2008 to take over as president of the 10-campus system, among the problems awaiting him were charges that administrators on the Irvine campus were not protecting Jewish students against hate speech and intimidation by Muslim student groups and from invited outside speakers.
Cheerful and diplomatic, Ambassador Oren addresses L.A.
Jonah Lowenfeld
January 17, 2013
In a speech about the relationship between Israel and the United States delivered in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening, Jan. 15, Michael Oren, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S., drew on his expertise as a historian of the Middle East to illustrate the strength of the alliance between the two countries.
The defendant: Moses
Jewish Journal
November 28, 2012
Add another feather to Erwin Chemerinsky’s cap. On Nov. 18, the great legal mind — founding dean of the University of California, Irvine, School of Law and former commentator for the O.J. Simpson trial — got Moses off on two counts: murder and flight to avoid prosecution.
Kobe practices at the JCC
Jewish Journal
November 29, 2011
Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant reportedly held a private training session at a Jewish Community Center in Irvine, Ca.
‘Irvine 11’ attorneys appeal conviction
Jewish Journal
October 20, 2011
Attorneys for 10 Muslim students convicted of disrupting a speech given by Israeli ambassador at UC Irvine last year, filed a notice of appeal Wednesday, arguing that the law used to convict the students was “vague and unconstitutional.”
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