YDA Jewish Caucus

(JCPA) The Jewish Council for Public Affairs today praised the Rockefeller, Ford and Cummings Foundations for withdrawing their support from and urging organizers to delay an American Association of University Professors (AAUP) conference.

The foundations, which donated funds and meeting space to conference organizers, have questioned the ability for open, honest and constructive dialogue after pre-conference materials included an anti-Semitic article.

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(NY Times) In this age of potpourri spirituality, Anique Olivier-Mason, 25, classifies herself generally as a Christian: she grew up Catholic and often attends a Presbyterian church near her home. But on a recent Friday night, she was attending Sabbath services at Larchmont Temple.

Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/nyregion/12convert.html

(Forward) Watching President Bush deliver his annual State of the Union address to Congress and the nation this week, it was hard not to notice the subdued, almost chastened tone of his delivery. Gone were the trademark winks and expansive body language that have characterized his public appearances for years. He was, like his message, restrained, at times almost downbeat.

Read more at http://www.forward.com/articles/7287

Andrea Bronfman, the wife of well-known philanthropist Charles Bronfman and a committed philanthropist in her own right, died in New York on Monday. Bronfman reportedly succumbed to injuries she sustained when a car skidded off the road and struck her while she was enjoying a morning walk. She was 60.

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(Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Iran announced plans Sunday for a conference to examine evidence for the Holocaust, a new step in hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s campaign against Israel – one that was likely to deepen Tehran’s international isolation.Ahmadinejad already called the Nazis’ World War II slaughter of European Jews a “myth” and said the Jewish state should be wiped off the map or moved to Germany or the United States.

Read more at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Iran_Holocaust.html