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Disagreement aired over UC Irvine boycott
Five Jewish student groups at the University of California-Irvine do not agree with a call to boycott the university over campus anti-Semitism. In a letter issued Monday, the groups said, “As stud...
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<i>Nancy Ratzan</i> Op-Ed: Saving equal rights for Israeli women
WASHINGTON ( JTA ) — Last April, two Israeli newspapers doctored photographs of the new Israeli Cabinet to remove the images of two female ministers, Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver. In one ...
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Jewish students called on to withhold applications to Irvine
The Zionist Organization of America is calling on Jewish students not to apply to the University of California, Irvine because it does not condemn campus anti-Semitism. ZOA in a statement releas...
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<i>Campus police remove a protestor after disrupting a speech by Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, at the University of California, Irvine, Friday, Feb. 8. UC-Irvine is notorious in the pro-Israel community for the intensity and often confrontational quality of discourse on the Middle East. But while some Jewish groups have pushed the administration to condemn inflammatory speakers sponsored by Muslim students, the university previously had been willing only to issue generic condemnations of hate speech on campus.</i> Campus confrontations continue
NEW YORK — In the wake of the arrests of 11 University of California, Irvine students for disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Shalom Elcott, the presiden...
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Snow removal has negative environmental side effects
Dear EarthTalk: What are the environmental impacts of all the de-icing and snow removal taking place on roads everywhere in the wake of all the recent storms? — Benjamin P Sander, via e-ma...
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Birthright foundation announces new matching grant
NEW YORK — A new matching grant program by the Birthright Israel Foundation will provide a dollar-for-dollar match on any increase in donations to the foundation based on 2008 gifts. Th...
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<i>Max Orenstein photo<br> Orthodox Jewish groups say a Supreme Court case dealing with a campus ban on an exclusively Christian society would adversely affect Hillel — some of its participants are shown meeting on campus — and other Jewish student organizations.</i> Christian student group case poses issues for Jewish groups
WASHINGTON ( JTA ) — Is it discriminatory for government to fund some forms of discrimination and not others? And what does “funding” mean? These questions are at the center of a case concerning...
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The Jewish agenda in Washington for 2010
WASHINGTON — Following President Obama’s State of the Union address and the start of the new congressional year, JTA asked Jewish organizations operating in Washington the followin...
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J.D. Salinger, reclusive author and grandson of rabbi, dies
NEW YORK — J.D. Salinger, author of “Catcher in the Rye,” recluse and grandson of a rabbi, has died at 91. Salinger, whose signature novel became an American classic and rema...
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Yeshiva Girls High Sch... 7:30 PM
The Yeshiva Girls’ High School Production,...
Pittsburgh Public Thea... 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM
This Arthur Miller play about two estrange...
Pittsburgh Jewish Isra... 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM
Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival Op...