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- Undertake events that promote Jewish causes and business
- Educate the community about actions taken by our legislative leaders
- Help California's cities establish Sister City Programs with Israel
* Group claims dairy has sold milk with stamp for years
* Dairy balked at certification fees, suit says
(Reuters) - The Jewish group that oversees kosher certification marks on food packaging sued a Maine dairy in federal court, alleging the company has been using the marks on its milk cartons for years without authorization.
The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America sued Maine's Own Organic Milk Co on Wednesday in Boston, seeking an injunction blocking the further sale of marked products, as well as an accounting of past sales and damages.
The Orthodox Union owns and administers the familiar Kosher certification stamp, which is rendered as a U inside a circle and referred to as the "OU mark."
According to the suit, the group learned in June 2010 that Maine's Own was selling milk with the stamp without authorization and contacted the company asking it to stop.
LaRouche group gathered signatures in support of impeaching President Obama in front of a doctored poster of Obama wearing a Hitler mustache. NAWAPA official says Holocaust survivors who take offense "don't understand history."
A fringe political group headed by a right wing activist who has openly supported accused Nazi war criminals, among others, held a signature gathering in support of impeaching President Obama in front of the Foster City Post Office earlier this week under a doctored poster of Obama wearing a Hitler mustache.
And despite his ties to extremist groups - Lyndon LaRouche has gone to bat for accused concentration camp guards and hired Klansmen as political consultants - a North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA) official suggested that the controversial former presidential candidate’s group isn’t peddling the Hitler comparison in a good way.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, FAMILY LAW, IMMIGRATION LAW, INTERNATIONAL LAW, JUDGES & JUDICIARY
Zivotofsky v. Clinton, No. 10-699
In a case in which parents of a child born in Jerusalem sought to have the child's place of birth recorded in his passport as "Israel" as allowed by a federal statute but prohibited by State Department policy, dismissal of the case on grounds that it presented a nonjusticiable political question is vacated, where: 1) resolution of the claim would not require the judiciary to define U.S. policy toward the status of Jerusalem, but rather required the courts to determine only whether the plaintiff could vindicate his statutory right to choose to have Israel recorded as his place of birth on his passport; 2) the only real question for the courts was whether the statute was unconstitutional; and 3) there was not a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving the question.
Click here to read the Supreme Court Ruling
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Nearly all fans of baseball history have heard of Hank Greenberg. Most have heard of Al Rosen. But fewer have heard of Cal Abrams, and hardly any, it’s safe to say, have heard of Lou Limmer. All four are members of a compelling team -- the 165 American Jews who played Major League Baseball between the 1870s and the end of the 2010 season.
Why should we care about Jews who played in the Major Leagues?
Baseball helped American Jews feel at home and helped non-Jewish Americans feel comfortable around them. For instance, there’s the famous Greenberg story of sitting out a game on Yom Kippur in 1934. The actions of the slugging Tigers' first baseman along with his home runs made him a hero to Jews and non-Jews.
The conundrum of whether to play on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, has resurfaced for many players, from Sandy Koufax deciding not to pitch in the first game of the 1965 World Series to, more recently, outfielder Shawn Green, both of the Dodgers. Every time a star player rests on the High Holidays, it generates national headlines and fosters Jewish pride. Of course, non-stars have to make the same call.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A new claim has surfaced that the Mormon church has posthumously baptized a Holocaust victim, this time Anne Frank.
The allegations come just a week after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apologized when it was brought to light that the parents of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal were posthumously baptized by church members at temples in Arizona and Utah in late January.
Researcher Helen Radkey, a former Mormon who revealed the Wiesenthal baptisms, said this week she found Frank's name in proxy baptism records dated Feb. 18, showing the ritual was performed in the Santo Domingo Temple in the Dominican Republic.
The Mormon church almost immediately issued a statement, though it didn't mention Frank by name.
"The Church keeps its word and is absolutely firm in its commitment to not accept the names of Holocaust victims for proxy baptism," the Salt Lake City-based church said. "It is distressing when an individual willfully violates the Church's policy and something that should be understood to be an offering based on love and respect becomes a source of contention."
For the last couple of weeks, I have been talking to people about the problem of California Cities adopting Sister Cities that are from countries that are not recognized by the Federal or State Government(s). After several hours of discussions, I have developed a legislative proposal that I believe will not only take care of the problem, but will provide funding while establishing a level playing field for every city to adopt as many sister cities as they possibly can.
As I see it, the overall problem is threefold:
Today’s blog is short and sweet… it’s a continuation of this weekend’s post(s).
As you can see, this column is about anti-Semitism on the campaign trail, and I posted some comments about a candidate for office, Democrat Ian Calderon (57th Assembly District).
As you recall, I wrote a letter asking him to explain and/or clarify his comments. To view the letter, please click here. As of today, I have not heard from him.
The letter did the following:
Today’s blog is short and sweet… yesterday I posted some comments about a candidate for office, Ian Calderon (57th Assembly District) and wrote a letter to him asking him to explain his comments. To view the letter, please click here (please note: depending on the browser you use, the letter will either open up as a word document or download into your download folder. To open the document, simply click on it)
