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News A beloved Fresno State librarian fantasized about ‘target practice’ on Jews
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News Nothing but rosé? Climate change is already threatening these kosher and Jewish winemakers
Jeff Morgan was thinking about the cabernet sauvignon grapes he bought this fall in Pope Valley, near Napa. “I’ve been sourcing grapes from this particular vineyard for I’d say almost 20 years,” said Morgan, co-founder of Covenant Wines. “And I’ve never had an issue with water before. We’ve always had enough water to get through…
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News Meet the eccentric Jews running in the recall election: a lawyer, a poultry prince and a billboard queen
Updated Aug. 25, 2021 at 11 a.m. California’s $276 million recall election on Sept. 14 consists of two questions. The first is, essentially, “Should Gov. Gavin Newsom be given the heave-ho?” The second asks who should replace him, with 46 people on the ballot seeking to do just that. At least three of the candidates…
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News Pro-Palestinian group protests $10 million Diller gift to Berkeley Law
A group of law students is demanding that Berkeley Law reject a recent $10 million gift from the Helen Diller Foundation to a university institute focused on Israel and Jewish studies. The gift was announced in February and, with it, the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies was renamed the Helen Diller Institute…
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News The fight to save endangered Jewish languages, from Ladino to Judeo-Malayalam
What are the Jewish languages? Some are well known — Hebrew is the language of the Torah and of Israel, and Yiddish was the language of the shtetls and the great centers of European Jewish culture. Ladino was the language of the Jews of Spain and the Ottoman diaspora. But what about Judeo-Malayalam, spoken by…
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Fast Forward Jewish program at UC Berkeley gets $10m from Diller Foundation
The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley announced Tuesday it has received a $10 million gift from the S.F.-based Helen Diller Foundation to coincide with the institute’s 10-year anniversary. The largesse will be accompanied by a name change, as the institute will henceforth be known as the Helen Diller Institute…
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