(JTA) — A professor at a central California university says pro-Israel groups pressured the school to disband a search committee for a Middle East studies professor. The search to fill the newly created Edward Said Professorship in Middle East Studies at California State University, Fresno, was in its final stages in April, when it was…
Anti-Semitic incidents are on the rise in California’s Bay Area this year, with more incidents at more schools in the first five months of this year than in all of 2016. Twenty-nine incidents have been reported by more than 25 schools this year, compared with 25 incidents reported by more than 16 schools in 2016….
Dianne Feinstein is too moderate for some Californians she represents, with many demanding the Senate Democrat confront President Trump. “The time has absolutely changed for politicians like her,” Robert Shearer, a left-wing state party exec, told Politico. “We are not going to tolerate it anymore.” Feinstein, who has previously served as San Francisco mayor, has…
Chana Bloch, a noted poet, peace activist and professor, has died at 77. Bloch, who lived in the Bay Area of California, was the author of five books of poems, six books of translation from Hebrew poetry, ancient and contemporary, and a critical study of George Herbert, according to her web site. She taught for…
A Chabad house in California won a legal victory when a judge ruled the controversial practice of kapparot, in which a live chicken is ritually killed before Yom Kippur, does not constitute a “business act” under state law. U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr., in a written opinion released Friday, did not directly touch on…
Israeli-born media mogul Haim Saban hosted Hillary Clinton at a thank-you dinner for campaign donors at his home Thursday night, Variety reported. According to the Hollywood newspaper, Roughly fifty major donors attended the gathering, as well as Bill Clinton and politicians like Rep. Maxine Waters and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Clinton’s new PAC, called…
(JTA) — A student association affiliated with California State University, Long Beach passed a resolution calling for divestment from companies “profiting from Palestinian oppression.” The senate of Associated Students, Inc., a nonprofit membership association and auxiliary organization of the university, passed the call Wednesday in a resolution addressed to the university but which is not binding…
(REUTERS) — A U.S. judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities, dealing another legal blow to the administration’s immigration priorities. The ruling from U.S. District Judge William Orrick III in San Francisco said Trump’s order targeted broad categories of federal funding for sanctuary…
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