Josh Richman
By Josh Richman
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Israel News Shifting Gears
For Rob Reiner, there’s just no escaping it. Even after directing such movies as “When Harry Met Sally,” “The Princess Bride,” and “A Few Good Men”; even after championing a successful ballot measure to raise money and awareness for early-childhood development; even as he pilots another ballot measure to create universal preschool in the nation’s…
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News Bringing it all back home at Berkeley Bayit
How a Jewish co-housing community created by the Reform movement transformed the lives of California college students
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News Anti-war Activist Addresses Congregation
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan wasted no time trying to clear the air on Yom Kippur. Moments after taking the microphone during an afternoon break in the congregation Beyt Tikkun’s service, the slain soldier’s mother — who drew international attention in August with her weeks-long anti-war vigil outside President Bush’s vacation home — noted that it…
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News Powerful Gun Lobby Takes Aim With First Jewish Leader
OAKLAND, Calif. — Guns were not a big deal in Sandy Froman’s life — until an intruder tried to break into her Los Angeles apartment one night about 25 years ago. Now she is the first Jewish person and only the second woman to serve as president of the National Rifle Association. “I think the…
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News Left Coast Liberals Fume as Charity Taps Former Aipac Man for Top Post
OAKLAND, Calif.— In a move that has left some Bay Area anti-war activists fuming, San Francisco’s Jewish Federation has tapped a former director of America’s pro-Israel lobby, and a supporter of both Iraq wars, to serve as its CEO. Thomas A. Dine, 65, will take the federation’s reins in early November when he travels from…
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News California Dem Pushes for Marriage Bill
SAN FRANCISCO — The clock was running down and California Assemblyman Mark Leno was a few votes short, watching his same-sex marriage bill slide toward oblivion. For the second year in a row, Leno, a Jewish Democrat from San Francisco and one of the state legislature’s six openly gay lawmakers, was racing to beat the…
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News New Doctrine Chief, Heir to Inquisition Mantle, Counts Many Jews as Pals
OAKLAND — The Vatican’s new chief theological watchdog, former archbishop of San Francisco William Joseph Levada, has been bemoaned in some circles as a doctrinal conservative. But he is receiving praise from at least one liberal stronghold: the Bay Area’s Jewish community. Levada became the highest-ranking American in the history of the Roman Catholic Church…
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Israel News Longtime Democrat Advising a Republican Governor
OAKLAND, Calif. –– When they first met 25 years ago, Bonnie Reiss was a staffer in the U.S. Senate and Arnold Schwarzenegger was best known as a bodybuilder. But even then, Reiss told the Forward, she could see the optimism, ambition and charisma that would propel Schwarzenegger to larger fame. And his political leanings, too,…
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