admin | April 20, 2024
Joseph Alexander wanted to educate young people about the truths of the Holocaust and hoped to prevent it from happening again. CHICO, Calif.
admin | April 11, 2024
The 9th edition of the annual African Diaspora Investment Symposium (ADIS24) recently convened in San Jose, California, emphasizing the pivotal role of diaspora engagement in shaping Africa's future. Organized by the African Diaspora Network (ADN) in Silicon Valley, ADIS24 brought together global investors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders to address urgent challenges, particularly climate change
admin | April 11, 2024
David Bocarsly SACRAMENTO, California The California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) announced on Wednesday $40 million in awards for the California State Nonprofit Security Grant Program (CSNSGP).
admin | March 30, 2024
It was Passover 1938, and the Kurc family gathered around the Seder table in Radom, Poland, to celebrate. By the next year, with the onset of World War II, the family found itself scattered far and wide, trying desperately to survive the Holocaust with almost no knowledge of the fate of their loved ones. The Kurc familys story is at the center of We Were the Lucky Ones, a new eight-part Hulu miniseries that covers close to a decade of their harrowing journeys.
admin | March 30, 2024
A California lawmaker, along with the states lieutenant governor, announced legislation on Thursday to help California residents reclaim personal property stolen from them during the Holocaust. The law comes after a controversial case that was affirmed in a California court last month, in which Claude Cassirer, a California resident, discovered that a painting was on display in Spain that Nazis had stolen from a relative of his in 1939. Under California state law, Cassirer, the sole heir to the paintings original owner, had legitimate ownership of the artwork.
admin | March 13, 2024
Hundreds of students and faculty members at Cal and city residents marched around the Sather Gate on March 11, 2024, demanding greater protection for Jewish students. Credit: Kelly Sullivan About 300 people, including graduate and undergraduate UC Berkeley students, faculty members and city residents marched from Zellerbach Playhouse to California Hall on Monday, demanding the university do more to protect Jewish students and faculty members two weeks after a violent demonstration led to the cancellation of an event with an Israeli think tank leader.
admin | March 13, 2024
Ben Stern, a Holocaust survivor who endured years in Nazi concentration camps and two death marches before settling in Skokie, Ill., where he helped rally opposition to a planned neo-Nazi demonstration in the late 1970s that produced one of the most explosive cases in First Amendment law, died Feb. 28 at 102.
admin | March 5, 2024
Three leading Jewish organizations launched a pro bono antisemitism helpline on Thursday to assist California parents of children experiencing anti-Jewish harassment in K-12 schools. The pilot helpline comes after a complaint was filed on Wednesday against Berkeley, Californias K-12 system detailing a number of reports from parents and students exposing antisemitic behavior conducted by peers and teachers.
admin | March 5, 2024
LOS ANGELES (JTA) As a member of the Israeli military who frequently speaks on Israels behalf, Ran Bar-Yoshafat is used to being heckled by anti-Israel protesters, especially on college campuses. But he says what happened to him at the University of California, Berkeley this week where a planned appearance was canceled because of a protest that turned violent was on a different level.
admin | February 23, 2024
Over the past 25 years, diasporas have increasingly become significant players in the international political arena. Examples of such politically active diaspora communities are the Jewish-, Greek-, Cuban- and Armenian-American associations that represent some of the strongest lobbies in Washington, DC.
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