Josh Richman
By Josh Richman
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News California Case Contains Claim Jews Will Refuse To Impose Death Penalty
OAKLAND, Calif. — The San Francisco Bay Area’s legal community is abuzz over a death-penalty appeal that claims a respected late Jewish judge advised a prosecutor to exclude Jews from a jury because, since the Holocaust, “no Jew would vote to send a defendant to the gas chamber.” Former Alameda County prosecutor Jack Quatman, now…
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News Nursing Home’s Labor Dispute Simmers
OAKLAND, Calif. — A holiday-season labor strike at San Francisco’s Jewish Home was canceled at the last minute, but the strife is far from over — and the well-being of 430 elderly residents hangs in the balance. About 380 workers, including vocational nurses, certified nursing assistants, dietary aides, housekeepers, porters and drivers at the nonprofit…
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News Jewish-Muslim Tensions High on California Campus
OAKLAND — Larry Mahler has trouble getting people to join an online discussion group for Jewish students at the University of California, Irvine. “A couple of people told me they didn’t want to go in because they’re afraid of being identified as Jewish on campus, and being targeted,” said Mahler, 20, a senior who’s president…
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News Rabbi Is in Training For the Long Run
SAN FRANCISCO — It has been a long, strange, wonderful run for Rabbi Lisa Gelber. Literally. The 36-year-old associate dean of the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Rabbinical School in New York ran a marathon through San Francisco last Sunday, physically expressing her spiritual passions: celebrating women’s role in the rabbinate, pursuing cures for blood cancers and…
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Israel News Taking a Gamble on a Controversial California Casino
SAN FRANCISCO — When Hollywood icon Arnold Schwarzenegger wrested the California governor’s office from hapless Democrat Gray Davis in 2003, both men had at least one thing in common: They opposed the opening of Indian casinos in the Golden State’s cities. But after almost a year in office, Schwarzenegger has tempered that opposition with the…
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News State Department Opposes New Antisemitism Office
OAKLAND, Calif. — The only Holocaust survivor in Congress is feuding with the State Department over his bill to create a special office at Foggy Bottom to track antisemitism across the globe. Rep. Tom Lantos, the ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, told the Forward this week that he was pushing ahead with…
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News American Peace Activist Detained in Israel
Israel’s refusal to let an American peace activist into the country is the product of a political double standard and a violation of her rights as a Diaspora Jew, supporters say. Jamie Spector, 32, a social worker from San Francisco, was told upon arriving July 10 at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv that…
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News Vulnerable on War Stance, Lantos Battles Primary Challengers
SAN FRANCISCO — Fresh off a historic meeting with Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi, Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, is gearing up for the final leg of his first primary challenge in more than a decade. In his quest for a 13th term, Lantos, a California Democrat, must defeat a pair of political…
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