Political campaigns often attract candidates with extraordinary biographies, but none may be as unique as that of Dr. Yona Barash, who announced last month that he was running as a Republican challenger in a Sacramento swing district. Barash was born in Romania in 1945, when it was occupied by Nazi Germany. His family made it…
(JTA) SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — A speech by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz at the University of California, Berkeley, may be blocked because organizers did not give campus police the required eight-week notice for the event. Dershowitz’s lecture, tentatively titled “The Liberal Case for Israel,” is planned for Oct….
A University of California, Berkeley student group has cancelled its “Free Speech Week,” a four-day event beginning on Sunday set to include appearances by right-wing media figures Stephen Bannon, Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos. However, Yiannopoulos showed up anyway on Sunday. According to Quartz, Berkeley was forced to pay $800,000 in security fees during Yiannopolos’…
(JTA) — The FBI has been called in to investigate threats against minority students at California State University, Long Beach, including Latino and Jewish students. Campus President Jane Close Conoley on Wednesday in an email sent to students and university employees confirmed the threats and the investigation. The threats were made over the internet and…
A California man was sentenced Friday to life in prison after being convicted of murdering a prominent Jewish doctor who he blamed for a botched procedure that left him incontinent. In 2013, Stanwood Elkus, then 75, drove more than 50 miles to shoot Dr. Ronald Gilbert in his office after making an appointment the previous…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. As a young boy growing up near the ocean in Los Angeles, Rabbi Nachum Shifren would often take a surfboard under his arm and hit the waves. It wasn’t until he was 30, while living in Santa Barbara, that he became inspired by the local Chabad to become an Orthodox Jew. At…
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is considering his next step in politics, and his options, Politico reporterd, are wide open. By the end of the month, Garcetti is expected to decide whether he’ll join the already crowded Democratic race for governor of California, a position that will open next year. He may, alternatively, chose to…
Barbara Boxer may be out of the Senate, but she’s still into politics. The retired California Democrat recently launched a Super PAC, called PAC for a Change, that is now releasing its first set of attack ads. The campaign targets California Republican congressman Darrell Issa, who is facing a tough reelection bid. The ad shows…
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