Tag: California
Brandeis Center/ADL/Standwithus launch pro bono K-12 anti-semitism helpline
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), and StandWithUs, along with three leading law firms, today announced a new pilot helpline to provide pro bono legal assistance to parents whose...
Some 200 anti-Israel activists force evacuation of Berkeley event
Some 200 people protested violently outside an event with a former Israel Defense Forces soldier at the University of California, Berkeley on Monday night, forcing Jewish students at the event to evacuate.
Anti-Israel students banged...
Retired National Guard general seeks $1.6 million damages in retaliatory suit
Disputes between two leaders in California’s National Guard have now resulted in a lawsuit.
Jeffrey Magram, a retired brigadier general in the guard, says he experienced two years of antisemitic commentary from Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers. After...
‘I got hot for nine holes,’ says pro-am champ of Amex golf tourney
Lee Wielansky had an especially good vantage point to watch the American Express Tournament in La Quinta, Calif., on Jan. 21. He competed in the PGA Tour event. Wielansky is a Jewish recreational golfer...
Muslim academics spew antisemitism in Texas, Southern California
In Friday sermons streamed live on YouTube, two men let loose with a broad variety of Jew-hating invective.
Ghaith Arodaki, who identifies as an entrepreneur and recently graduated from San Jose State University, spoke on Dec. 29 for...
Attacker of Jewish couple in Beverly Hills on Shabbat faces multiple charges
Prosecutors have charged Jarris Jay Silagi, 44, with multiple crimes following his alleged attack on Dec. 9 against a Jewish couple walking on Shabbat to their synagogue in Beverly Hills, Calif., saying it was an act...
The race after Feinstein
In the days after Senator Dianne Feinstein’s death, the California political community’s attention has been divided between commemorating Feinstein’s remarkable career and speculating about who Governor Gavin Newsom would appoint as her replacement.
The mourning...
With Feinstein’s death, pro-Israel Senate makeup may be in jeopardy, experts say
The late Dianne Feinstein is often described as a fierce supporter of Israel throughout her more than 30 years serving as a California senator.
The Democrat was proud of her “strong Jewish heritage” and did...
Jewish groups sue California school district, alleging antisemitic ethnic-studies curricula
The Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Potomac Law Group filed a lawsuit against the Santa Ana Unified School District and its education board late on Friday.
The...
‘Too little, too late,’ on keeping antisemitism out of California ethnic studies
The Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California organized a letter to state leaders in late June decrying antisemitic content that was reportedly finding its way into California’s ethnic-studies curricula, which the state will require...