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SD school district’s Jewish leader has big-picture vision for public education
September 2015
- At a national Jewish conference, a speaker said Muslims should ‘get the f— out’ of America. Its organizers won’t condemn him.Islamophobic remarks made by a speaker during a national Jewish conference in Los Angeles have drawn condemnation from the city’s mayor. But national and local Jewish groups who organized and funded the program have largely remained silent. Mosab Hassan Yousef, a former Israeli intelligence asset whose father is a Hamas co-founder, made the inflammatory comments... […]
- He photographed the defining image of 9/11 – and Jewish history for 50 yearsRobert Cumins stood on his ninth-floor balcony in Verona, New Jersey, camera in hand, as smoke billowed from the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Then he saw a plane heading toward Lower Manhattan. He snapped two quick frames and kept watching. Then came the fireball. He had no idea, in that instant, that... […]