and the jewish people and the jewish state. on the other hand, it is very difficult to imagine that if he you were too in to in fact draw a border how you would get all the way over here to include it in wester islam or the israeli jewish capital. i said well, how do you bridge that? he said look at this convention center on top of the hill. there is a little hotel there that is right above the mt. of olives. and he said that looks like a perfect place for the israeli embassy to the mill -- new palestinian state and guess what the mt. of olives should be the garden of the israeli embassy. [laughter] now that is the kind of creativity and that is the kind of reaction that we in america and our friends in israel ought to be providing as this extraordinary exchanges whipping through the nation. >> robber, thank you. [applause] we have time now -- thank you. we have time to sum up and we are going to begin with you elliott for a couple of minutes and then you robert for a couple minutes. >> first thank you for having me. desires a

in retaliation for an attack on a passing jewish bus.ng for their lives, most of lifta's arab residents fled. none have ever been permitted to return. on a visit to lifta's spring, i met a group of israeli youngsters and was curious to hear what they knew about lifta. >> so what about the history of this place? >> when we came to capture the land, so they didn't like israel so they escaped. they just want to kill us. >> what would you think if some people who used to live here 60 years ago wanted to come back? >> that it's theirs. >> for most of my life i held the same simplistic attitudes as these girls and until today have never spoken to palestinians to hear their side of the story. >> here was my home. you see these stones? here was my home. no time i forget when i was playing here. >> did you have phones here, by the way? >> no, we are shouting. i want to call my young cousin or uncle, "mohammed!" i shout, and he answered me in the same way "yacoub!" >> i always looked upon my uncle as a hero. all my other relatives died in the oven

jewish prophets predicted the events of holy week hundreds of years before they took place. today more than a billion call themselves followers of christ. >> plus easter at the white house. why president obama says faith is crucial in these turbulent times. >> and the powerful life of christ on rare display. how a 19th century artist painings dramatically portrays the life and teachings of the savior. and welcome to our special easter edition of "christian world news" hello everyone i am george thomas. >> and i am wendy griffith. the white house became a place of worship this week. president obama invited christian leaders from across the u.s. to celebrate the resurrection of jesus christ. white house correspondent jennifer wishon reports. >> reporter: in the midst of heavy national debates and busy schedules, president obama says it is important to keep things in perspective. >> president obama: during this season, we are reminded there is something about the resurrection of our savior jesus christ that puts everything else in perspective. >> easter prayer -- christian lead

you don't talk jewish. and i write in jerusalem and got on the bus and saw busloads of people who looked exactly like me. i thought, i'm really connected to the place. in my experience they think and in james carroll spoke a tax also that the power of going to jerusalem and what it feels like and how shattering it can be and how profound it can be, even for people who don't have any sense of identity. so my question to the panel and i'm just going to ask you to go one by one to describe the first time he saw jerusalem and how does that vision live with you as an american, as a citizen of the world and as a person of faith. the other wonderful thing about this book is that it talks both jerusalem is the place, and actual physical, real place that exists in the world and time now and also as a series of hopes and dreams and conflicts and paradoxes that existed simultaneously. so, imam feisal, do it to start? >> the oldest religion furs. i first went to jerusalem in 1878. my late father was a close friend of j

i'm not jewish. i come from a little village that is very unfriendly to any newcomer whatsoever, and i never knowingly knew a jewish person until i went to college, and so why am i a gentile atheist zionist? i say atheist in various circles. [laughter] because when i was starting out on my political journey when i first went to college, i met a group of young jewish students and nonjewish students who understood the secular root of zionism and the history rooted in the european left, and it made it permissible to me for somebody who wasn't too sure of her relationship in organized religion although i'm a woman of faith to actually understand the jewish people are that, a people, a nationhood, and that if i believed in my right as a national group of people of self-determination, i should therefore confer on the jews exactly the same right, and the problem is there's nothing that people understand that very, very simple, but crucial, political point, and therefore it's allowed for confusion and percep

what's the best thing about being jewish for you? of the whatever gifts that i have came through this strain of dna. i mean, it can't just be a coincidence that i know how to do. i didn't learn all this of how to be a comedian and how to think funny and talk funny. some of that was put in me from other jews. so i'm grateful for that. >> reporter: in fact, seinfeld is just one of the prominent jewish-americans whose work is celebrated at the museum. there's a pipe that belonged to nobel prize winning physicist albert einstein. a glove used by record-breaking baseball pitcher sandy koufax, a piano played by composer erving berlin complete with his lyrics to "god bless america." >> land that i love. >> he came here as a child, as an immigrant. he served in world war i. he was an immensely patriotic man. to him, this was a deep expression of his feeling for his homeland. >> reporter: as jewish-americans get ready for the passover seder tomorrow night, the ceremonial dinner that celebrates freedom from slavery, the biblical exodus of jews

and in the original funding resolution is a jewish state which they seem to have had m. nisha about and why was it easy then and it's not easy now? the truth is it is back to the same issues that people don't understand what it is to be jewish and they also do not understand what it means to us in relation for the need for us to stand side-by-side and protect and promote the state of israel because we are looking at the mirror image of ourselves, and if we deny israel and the jewish people that right then we take away our own right and it's only a matter of time. and so, it's not easy, but one of the things we base our work on in britain is the absolute non-sequitur of israel as a jewish state. it is no longer good enough to rely on the language of the homeland for the jews because the debate has changed and it doesn't mean to say that you take a position on to be or not and why he uses it. it means that it's far deeper and it's far more important to the future of the jewish people and of the free space world. >> as we say in the u.s., you are batting cleanup. [laughter]

and the jewish people and the jewish state. on the other hand, it is very difficult to imagine that if he you were too in to in fact draw a border how you would get all the way over here to include it in wester islam or the israeli jewish capital. i said well, how do you bridge that? he said look at this convention center on top of the hill. there is a little hotel there that is right above the mt. of olives. and he said that looks like a perfect place for the israeli embassy to the mill -- new palestinian state and guess what the mt. of olives should be the garden of the israeli embassy. [laughter] now that is the kind of creativity and that is the kind of reaction that we in america and our friends in israel ought to be providing as this extraordinary exchanges whipping through the nation. >> robber, thank you. [applause] we have time now -- thank you. we have time to sum up and we are going to begin with you elliott for a couple of minutes and then you robert for a couple minutes. >> first thank you for having me. desires a

come to the jewish music festival.here are appetizers and there are amazing evening planned for you. come and be a part of it learn about yiddish. if this interested you at all come and learn more. there is so much richness no matter if you are jewish or know yiddish. there is so much to learn and enjoy. i hope you enjoyed. i want to give a thanks to john. [applause] [inaudible]. [applause] and i want to quickly say i have some cd's down dollar. one more song. one more song. thank you. so, i wanted to say really quick i have cd's if you want to purchase them. [laughter]. [laughter] wow! i never gotten so -- um -- so, thank you. anyways i have cd's if you are interested i have cards and bios and cd's please, sign up. i usually perform. come out. the last song so put your hands together and clap or i will be angry. thank you, again. [music] ♪[applause] >> thank you. [applause] all right. you guys want to -- so, there is a little song that some people know that you have seen before. a little song by a kind of food, right.

so, these next few pieces are jewish art songs the jewish art song is not something that most peoplenow about even if you are into classical music. raise your hand if you know shoemoner shoebert? these songs are actually in yiddish but they are art songs. they are beautiful. and they are not done. right. soy, i hope you enjoy the next few pieces. i will describe them. the first was written by [inaudible] a song that has almost nonsentence words but it's your time to be with god and your moment alone with whatever you need. i hope you appreciate this one. [music] ♪[applause] >> thank you. so the next piece, it's beautiful. this is yiddish a beautiful song that was given to me by george rosenside who is an amazing person. and this next piece was the same composer composed in paris and called the yiddish and a great -- it's so beautiful. yiddish the wealth of my treasure much the kreet urs -- from it's yiddish. so many true, simple and core people wandering through countries and over the world where truth -- [music] ♪ [applause] this next piece is actually, this piece and the next piece

the assault on the right of every jewish person of self-determination. the last thing is we need to be able to talk within our community but two big questions who is the delegitimizers and what is -- because if we expand the tradition of what is a delegitimizers, and we narrow the camp of who is for israel which means if you don't support israel no matter what then we are fighting with a narrow base against a big community and we are not going to win. [applause] the flipside is if we expand the definition of who is pro-israel they are more tolerant and we narrow the vision of who is delegitimizers and focus on the bad guy. then we will win this fight for sure because they are few and far apart but this requires left and right to understand. the right misunderstand the most credible voices standing up against delegitimization comes from the left and the lefties understand that there has to be a line. not everything goes. these are difficult conversations that lead to have within our communities but adults also a big opportunity. [applause] >> i think this

imagination and the jewish collective memory, and so every aspect of jewish liturgy, of the calendarhe jewish experience in the world is in some way rooted in the experience of yetziat mitzrayim, of the exodus from egypt. our job as a community is to position ourselves spiritually, to prepare ourselves spiritually, so that we're ready when we go into our individual homes on seder night, that we're ready to receive the inspiration that will flow. the cleansing of our homes is part of the cleansing of the soul. this is part of the spiritual preparation. we live in this very paradoxical relationship with slavery, that's enunciated through the pages of the haggadah, the book that we use to guide us through the seder experience, in which we both articulate that we are free and we're celebrating our freedom, but also we are still slaves and maybe next year we'll be free. we recognize that our freedom is intimately linked to the freedom of those who are most vulnerable in our society today, and we can't be fully free until they are also free. matzah is the most powerful food substance there

south africa and apartheid, why aren't jewish americans, jewish europeans, all over the world demanding peace, justice for the palestinians? thank you. >> thank you for the questions, but i think each of them, it needs, you know, that's what i can say to you. but what is important? to answer this question, all of us take responsibility of the responsibility is shared. may be different, but each of us to do his part. palestinians, as israelis, as ends, as americans, as jewish, everyone, what can he deal to promote the implementations of the plans of the maps which are there. we are not going to invent the wheel. it is there. the road and the way, the path is there but we need implementation. and it's time to take responsibility and moral courage for all to speak loudly without blaming, and whether come from a palestinian, for me as a palestinian, i saw palestinians doing bad things. i should criticize it. and for the american jewish people, the israelis to speak loudly, all of us, we make mistakes and we must speak loudly from goodwill to everyone about the bad things they are doing. and

the jewish community had moved from new orleans to baton rouge. people gathered around food and housing and social services. what is also important people began to talk about their faith or spiritual aty. some people in care i say talked about god directly or jesus. and engage in very interesting and very personal ridges thee owe logical that was speared on by dis is tear. but not related to a hungry stalk or how will i get to lay my pep. and wondering if you see some of that also along the way with certainly all the other issues that come to floor like the budget crisis and social services. but that faith journal knee seems to be an under current. >> we mentioned we do have a faith journey every month. for some people it's the most important part of the conversation. it's amazing to hear pipless stories. everybody can relate to some peoples start of the story. not all. i think that is fair. >> absolutely. you hit on something very important. we will attribute the key to your success. how do you keep their interest and keep them together? we have

people, underline jewish people.er to do that, and again, i don't think anyone on this is naive. the israelis, the likelihood of the israelis and palestinians negotiating, a comprehensive agreement is between zero and one percent. closer to zero. the question is what can prime minister netanyahu and the israel he government do to better posture itself so has to protect it's significant interests going forth in the future. i would argue that this is where prime minister netanyahu and the israeli government should be more forthcoming. they should say what is in their interest. like elliot said, not because it's good for the palestinians. i would argue it's good for israel. for the israelly prime minister to say my borders, my borders. the borders that are best for me and my people are the 1967 borders with significant allowments to make certain that 80% of the jewish-israelis that today live outside of the 67 lines will be within the internationally recognized borders of israeli if he were to simply say that, i know it

he was president of the san francisco jewish community federation. he was very proud of the san francisco community and gave back on the board of the san francisco opera, the commission of agency -- the commission on aging, and the university. people were asked to send donations to the holocaust center and the jewish family children services of san francisco. up next, i am submitting a resolution in support of a resolution introduced by state assemblywoman nancy skinner. it would remove a major barrier to a successful reentry for incarcerated individuals. it would increase the opportunity and public safety by insuring more people are able to drive. it would allow people who have only non-felony vehicle code violations to drive after being released to county jails. the realignment is likely to redistribute tens of thousands of inmates from state to county jails throughout california. this law would create uniformity in the rules for formerly incarcerated individuals. we strongly support this bill and it is requested that the board of supervisors suppo

many people in your own commun, the jewish community, didn't like that film.ow do you choose, how do you fight those kinds of fights even when sometimes they're in your own community. >> my mom is 85 years old, he's the marie in miramax. she saw the movie, she said, did your brother see this movie? did he have anybody to do with it? i said, he loved it too. so there's my strong 85-year-old mother, jewish mom, i love her dearly but obviously she doesn't want to see the palestinians have a point of view and it's a point of view that we have to understand if there's going to be peace. she's half kidding but also not half kidding. so that was the fivers thing to overcome is mom. but over the years, mom's rolled with the punches. we did the movie "priest," which was all those years ago, we made a movie about a priest molesting young boys and the cardinal called us on the carpet in new york, my mom wouldn't even talk to us, that we made a movie like that. she said they used to show the miramax logo and people would boo in the theater because we were involved with "p

do you have any articles about the benefits of circumcision marks a jewish boy. know she's not a lesbian. then you don't understand. week 31, i'm not going to sircumicize. i heard on the radio that thomas jefferson owned slaves. he bowed to cultural pressure. some things are just wrong. week 32, i make the mistake of telling my mom i'm struggling with circumcision. i don't think so. i think of the stuff that can get caught in the vagina. that's not nice. andrea. if this child is jewish. he needs to be sircumicized. you don't want your boy to feel strange. that's true. i think my anxiety is fear of having a boy. i am terrified of boys. they are wild and smelly. i said, there is no way to know that. well i know for a fact you don't need it. like i wanted to talk to my dad about his penis. week 34, i don't have the double wide vagina i was hoping for. with just six weeks to go. instructions for peroneal massage. lock hands. apply lubricant. extra virgin olive oil. hold the thumb in place for two minutes or until it becomes numb. slowly massage over the vagina. it's

reconnect and connect again not only in the african american community but for instance the contemporary jewish museum. we are partners in this event.

crosses a red line because power would be shared with hamas which has called for the destruction of the jewish state. u.s. lawmakers say that they may have to review palestinian aid agreements and palestinians themselves wonder whether the two sides can really work together. >> guests at this cafe in gaza say they were busy discussing the real madrid barcelona soccer match. the news from cairo was met with much skepticism even many year would like to see steps towards reconciliation of the two movements. >> we hope that they are serious and there will be some progress, but experience teaches us that the two parties in gaza and ramallah do not really mean it. >> after five long years of skirmishing between the two sides, many palestinians wonder what reconciliation night look

after the jewish are adolescents -- after the jewish settlers, they became more maltese and italian. last census showed, we were 53% asian-pacific islander. the community has continued to grow and change. everyone has really embraced that. we liked that sort of diversity here. >> now, let's meet the president of the dogpatch neighborhood association. she will tell us about life in dogpatch, a clean neighborhood on the eastern edge of potrero hill, and we will learn how the residents convinced the city to a vigil -- to designate the area a historic district. >> dogpatch and the health and cottages are the historic houses in the area. those were built for the union ironwork. this really is one of the most original live-work neighborhoods in san francisco. because of this mix of housing and industrial, they need to sit in terms of scale and mass and height for the neighborhood. during the whole dot-com boom, we saw many move into the neighborhood. we found ourselves in combat before the planning commission for one project after another, and that was actually an impetus for the community

issueond reconstructs her family's compl history to help us t understand the influence of european jewish life in the 19th and 20th centuries. if and a long way gone, as the story of a bull a soldier during the civil warhe during the mid-1990s in zero lyonnais. we read about his rehabilitation at the age of 15. is mail has served as a powerful spokesperson from the child soldiers almost from thehi moment of his rehabilitation he works with unicef on poverty issues. and warned and emigrated at the age of five years of the. as a graduate working with behavioral and mental health research since 1998 and her novel focuses on the uniquevel geographical political and cultural dynamics of growing up in the crux of two influential countries and herblock's stands at the top of the top 100 latina blogs. now we will hear from governor castro.ve >> good morning ladies and gentlemen, i am honored tod be here with you this morning and i am lucky to make it. out of arizona 75 yards from the mexican border. i was timid about coming t because i was afraid they may turn the upside-down asking the four pape

a nice jewish fellow. i tried to communicate with him kerry and i asked him if he has been to israel and seen and heard what we are? before he called us not cease. -- nazis. he said i will never go to israel as long as it is a jewish. i will be happy to come to israel when it is palestine. how can you reason was such things? we do not take jewish support for granted anymore, but we're very pleased to have the across- the-board of the american social spectrum, agrees support for christians. we are also reaching out to hispanic and other minorities in the american society, because they are very important to keep the relations strong. see if i hear it everywhere i go. i am beginning to hear it in europe. -- i hear it everywhere i go. they say you are there not just for israel, but for us. to defend our ideology, our values, our future. i can tell you the fact that we are being attacked in that region is not because necessarily we are jewish or israeli, it is because we happen to be there. this is the scene li

but you also see lots of anti-jewish, lots of anti-israeli, israel, jewish trader. you see gadhafi's name in a star of david. we were driving down the road the man leans into our car, he's a rebel and says we're going to liberate tripoli and then we're going to libel rate the people of gaza in egypt. when the people were in tahrir square. all the time we saw after they would burn a security vehicle, that was associated with mubarak forces, it would be burned -- >> charlie: nothing could help the united states better than to see some kind israeli palestinian settlement. >> yes. they need one analysis because when you would see these burned out vehicles in egypt, they would then put a star of david on the burned out vehicles, a stamp that this was a bad thing, an evil vehicle, they had burned it because it was associated with jewish identity and israel. this whole backlash i think will come to roost. yes, if things can change to find some sort of israel palestinian solution and find it quickly. >> charlie: thank you for coming. >> my pleasure. >> charlie: richard enge

other jewish fathers play golf. >> this is a jewish district attorney. >> originally from mexico. his whole passion in life is corruption. the family own add discount store. that wasn't where his heart would you say. he was running this family business and his heart was exposing theing bad guy. for a reporter it became the most fantastic training ground. at dinner my father would talk non stop, the mayor is a crook, the senator is a crook, i am going to get that guy. he would have campaigns, whistle blowers, he had stocking bag stuffers. there was an extrodinary house, lucky house, very grateful for all of that who is hilariously funny. he is holder sister, anita brenner was older, worked in the "new york times" in the 1930s. there are many pictures of anita in those family scrapbooks. unfortunately my father hated his older sister, rather than getting to have wonderful times of gertrudestein in mexico, all i heard was she is a monster. they didn't speak. the idea of her, the largeness of her loomed large in the house. >> so you start out, you become a writer for all of these reas

it's actually a jewish-american woman who adopted me. and i arrive in the united states and started living there but on my way to the united states it's what i want to mention briefly about immigration and things like that. and when i began perhaps the first time in my life that i began to question whether my own humanity was worthy as others people who had lived in eastern europe. i had never questioned this in my life and this came about how the process of emigrating to the point it dehumanized the person who was stuck in the immigration. when i went to the american embassy to get a visa, i was asked to produce two things. one of them was a bank statement that showed that i had income. and second, was a documentation that showed that i had ownership of property in sierra leone. now the war had begun going on in my country at this point, eight, nine years. and i tried to explain to this fellow who interviewed me from behind this mirror and a microphone coming and i can hear his voice, i tried to explain to him, i'm coming to a place tha

video is produced by aich.com, a jewish group to help jews learn more about their faith. >> there's a misconception i think that the bible is antiquated, especially in today's world with everything moving so fast, looking so forward-thinking. so telling the exodus story through the internet helps break that misconception. what we've been doing for the past decade and more is taking jewish bible concepts and bringing them into the 21st century. so this is really a natural extension of what we've been doing to communicate to the younger generation that religion is still relevant to today's world. >> absolutely. >> the video is also available online in hebrew and spanish. >> that's awesome. well, we have had a real variety of stories today. i hope you've enjoyed our broadcast. that is our report for this ek. i hope you'll join us again next week. >> until then, goodbye and godo

how did you approach this notion of jewish, catholic. >> i grew up in a town that was heavily jewish and heavily catholic. i lusted after an italian woman my whole high school. but... >> she never knew. (laughs) >> totally unrequited. totally unrequited. but it took a lot of time. it took a lot of tears and years to figure this out. my family was very nervous about it because as the minority they saw my marrying a christian as a threat to judaism and the traditions. now they were not observant jews but they were strong cultural jews. in fact one of the odd dis here is that while they objected to my marrying a catholic, the first seder, the first passover my mother ever went to was at her catholic daughter-in-law's because she never grew up with that tradition. in many ways... i couldn't have predicted it, but marrying a woman of faith made ritual and faith and belief more a part of my life and in many ways i'm a better jew because i married a catholic. >> they all say i'm the best jew in the family and i keep saying low bar. >> not a lot of competition. >> rose: and to the rituals an