Rebecca Spence
By Rebecca Spence
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News In South Florida Congressional Race, Incumbent and Challenger Have the Ethnic Bases Covered
If there is any question as to whether Hispanic Jews are gaining prominence in South Florida, look no further than a local congressional race, where two candidates going head to head in a primarily Hispanic district have ties to both Latin America and the Jewish faith. In the 18th congressional district in Miami-Dade County —…
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News Kosher Slaughterhouse Management Arrested
Los Angeles – As legal troubles at the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse continue to mount, critics of the Postville, Iowa, plant are urging stronger government action. On July 3, two supervisors were detained by federal authorities in the first instance of management-level arrests at Agriprocessors, Inc. The arrests come on the heels of a sweeping…
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News Disappeared Jews’ Families Blast Prisoner Swap
Los Angeles — In the wake of Israel’s prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah, the families of Iranian Jews who have disappeared are crying foul. The day after Israel announced its agreement to exchange five Lebanese prisoners for the bodies of the soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, six Iranian Jewish families based in Israel, and…
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News Troubled California Campuses Get New Chief
Los Angeles – Less than two weeks after assuming the presidency of the University of California system on June 16, Mark Yudof departed for a nine-day trip to Israel. In a higher education system long plagued by reports of Israel-bashing on a handful of its 10 campuses, Yudof’s swift departure for the Jewish State is…
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News Survey on Mideast Conflict Finds That Most Oppose Taking Sides
A new survey of international opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict found that respondents in most countries favor their governments not taking sides. The survey, conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a consortium affiliated with the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, found that in 14 out of 18 nations, people say their governments should…
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News Chicago Museum Closes Contentious Exhibit
In the wake of an outcry from Chicago-area Jews, the Windy City’s only Jewish museum closed down a high-profile maps exhibition that parsed the issue of Israel’s borders and boundaries. The Spertus Museum, part of the 84-year-old Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, located on Chicago’s South Loop, announced June 20 that it was shutting down…
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News Preschool Plan Pits Antiquities Museum Against Hasidim in Ritzy L.A. Enclave
Los Angeles — A brewing land-use dispute that involves a Southern California Chabad-Lubavitch branch, a powerful Los Angeles art museum and a host of outraged neighbors is stoking tensions between the Hasidic Orthodox sect and residents of one of this city’s wealthiest enclaves. The fracas began when a Chabad group in Pacific Palisades — a…
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News ‘Zohan’ Film Styles a New Israeli Hero
Los Angeles – In honor of his 13th birthday, Jake Himelfarb found a distinctly Jewish way to celebrate: He took his two best friends to see the new Adam Sandler comedy, “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan,” when it opened on June 6. Himelfarb, a Los Angeles native, wasn’t the only Jewish teenager — let…
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