Josh Richman
By Josh Richman
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News Calif. Donor Sets Record
Stephen Bing is already known as a multimillionaire real estate heir, movie mogul, prominent playboy and perennial paparazzi prey. Now you can add “record-setting political donor” to the list. Bing, 41, of Los Angeles, has put a whopping $40 million into California’s Proposition 87, a measure on November’s ballot that would impose a tax on…
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News Concentration Camp Guard’s Secret Past Revealed
For decades, an elderly San Francisco woman kept her wartime stint as a Nazi concentration camp guard hidden from her family, including her late husband — a German Jew who’d fled the Holocaust himself. But time and the American government finally caught up with Elfriede Lina Rinkel, 84, who was deported to Germany this month…
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News Pro-Israel Activists Upset With Berkeley Paper, Santa Cruz Mayor
OAKLAND, Calif. — Two recent controversies in Northern California cities have Jewish communal leaders protesting what they describe as a local embrace of anti-Israel rhetoric. In Santa Cruz, the mayor gave a visiting Palestinian ambassador a key to the city, just before the diplomat declared that “Hezbollah is an amateur in terrorism compared with Israel.”…
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Israel News A Master of the Rolodex
With about 299 more Amnon Rodans, United Jewish Communities’ goal of raising $300 million in emergency aid to Israel would be a cake walk. The 51-year-old Israeli American, dialing feverishly from his home in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Piedmont, Calif., raised a whopping $900,000 in about four days last month using the…
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Culture After Delays, San Francisco Museum Finally Breaks Ground
God’s delays are not God’s denials.” So said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in his remarks at the ground-breaking of The Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the phrase could not have been more appropriate. The museum has endured long waits and sizable setbacks to get to where it is today — opening with a Daniel Libeskind-designed…
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News U.S. Rep. Wants Partisan-free Israel Zone
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Like many of his fellow Democrats, Rep. Tom Lantos was upset over Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s condemnation of Israel last week. But rather than join some Democrats in boycotting Maliki’s July 26 speech to Congress, Lantos logged his objection in person — during a breakfast that he co-sponsored for the…
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News High School Teacher Arrested for Hate Crimes
OAKLAND — A Fresno, Calif., high school teacher has been charged with a hate crime more than a year after she allegedly pushed a Jewish woman to the ground, pulled her hair, kicked her and told her, “You should have burned in the oven with the rest of the Jews.” Donna Jean Hubbard, 45, was…
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News Charity President Charged With Embezzlement
The former president of a hospital auxiliary in San Francisco has been charged with embezzling almost $166,000 from the charity, money that otherwise would have served needy patients for more than a year. Gariel D. “Gary” Freund, 59, was arrested May 24 at his home in the city’s affluent Monterey Heights section; he faces 30…
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