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…world Law School Criticized On Palestinian Event SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — A Bay Area law school is under fire for withdrawing its sup- port of a Palestinian rights conference on its campus. Officials at the University of California at Hastings College of the Law revealed that they had made a last-minute decision to remove the school's name from "Litigating Palestine," a conference devoted to using the courts to promote Palestinian rights. At a M...…
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…Anti-Israel Gays Quit Toronto Parade TORONTO (JTA) — Queers Against Israeli Apartheid said it will not participate in the Toronto Pride Parade. The group, which has raised contro- versy with its planned participation in the parade, announced its decision last week. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said the same day that the city should withhold city funds for the event until after the parade to ensure that Queers Against Israeli Apartheid does not actu-...…
…I am JewishDetroit. I care. I help. I give. Last year, local Jewish day schools awarded over Join Yosi and the more than 10,000 $10.3 million in scholarships to 1,525 students. members of our Detroit Jewish community Parents faced with job loss and downsizing are finding it more difficult than ever to pay even a portion of school tuition. But imagine a world without Jewish education, without places where students learn what it means ...…
…world >> on the cover Bittersweet Justice Jewish families who lost loved ones on 9-11 reflect on Osama bin Laden's death. Bittersweet from page 1 The Schneider family: Cheryl, Ian and children Jake, Rachel and Sophie, one week before Ian was killed on Sept. 11, 2001 in 1 World Trade Center "I think this shows that calling American efforts a 'war on terror' is using the wrong metaphor. Wars have a starting point and an end point; clearly h...…
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…4-1 4Q-4t, ohen Contributing Writer - "Oh, my God! That's where I was. was there! It was inhumane." Don Cassa of Southfield was motioning toward the multiple movie screens in the darkened passage at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills that were displaying gruesome footage of dead bodies and the emaciated survivors liberated by the Allies at the end of World War II. "They were only skin and bones; I don't know how they made ...…
…1171ePh!all E,,-(Pmed g;:iffrr*: DON P. CASSA U.S. ARMY Rank: Private First Class Tour of Duty: Europe Years Served: 1944-1946 These Jewish children are on their way to Palestine allei baying been zelease,d train the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. June 5, 1945 Biography: A Private First Class in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946. Don P. Cassa fought in World War II, receiving many awards along the way including a Combat Infantrymans Badge ...…
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