and everyone knew i was jewish but i didn't know i was jewish. that began my journey to explore what happened, why that happened and so in some ways, my whole life about is a mission to understand what that meant. when my first child was born in 1976, i joined the san francisco jcc. she went to preschool there and i joined the board. i converted when i was eight months pregnant with my third child in 1982 and i was president of the jcc from '86 to a '89. during that time, i was fully in touch with the jewish life. it was amazing. at a conference, i met gary tobin who was then the director of the center for modern jewish studies at brandeis. with the emfa. >>> word modern there. he was very interested in how jewish life was moving forward and he was very -- we had a lot of synergy and our interests in life. he moved the center for modern jewish studies out to san francisco and we became independent. >> along the way, you got married? >> yes, i did. we got married. exactly. >> and what does the institute actually do? >> we are focused on identifyin

you know the idea that mentioning the israeli lobby the jewish lobby i've called it the israeli jewish lobby in print for a long time for those of us that have followed this for decades we're looking and we're kind of laughing everybody knows there's this powerful lobby just like everybody knows they're global warming but there are certain things you can't really deal with in washington they're third rails or to do subjects it's not the mention of them that's not the. it's the standing up to them it's not letting them all was dominate it's voting against them it's speaking against them journalists are ostracized presidents are ostracized remember how what was president carter how he had to pull back when they were insisting on american policies being what they wanted and not what president carter want to think to the chairman of the foreign relations committee bill fulbright was pushed out of chuck percy was pushed out of town so there's a long history to this problem is not that he mentioned the subject problem is that he occasionally stood up to the. unfortunate really that this is t

and then miraculously was then a year you know state of israel was created in the small jewish state programs and so forth. but then when you look at the details you see that the jewish community at the time which is a small group of immigrants really less than half a million immigrants are living there its eyes were suddenly given by the united nations the lion's share of the country and the palestinians who were the vast majority in palestine at the time were were deprived of more than half of their land which is absurd and then you look further and you see that the jewish community had a massive militia of almost forty thousand armed men which my father was a was your father was an officer and there was an equivalent of the palestinian side there was no fighting force in the both inside and then once again you keep looking for. so there you see that as soon as this resolution was accepted the israeli forces began a massive campaign of ethnic cleansing is probably one of the worst acts of terror that it's taken place in that part of the world in a very long time or for an entire ye

so it's all jewish yeah yeah any known jewish parts because. not. many people say he is not being constructive in the peace process but look how many settlements it constructed i'm hoping. to build a new settlement. this is the future of israel i believe and i'm afraid that if i buy the house and i get a document saying it's mine someday palestinians can scum and say no it's not yours because i keep listening to that in the. see. there's history. there's just one thing and. it's funny how those small actions had like international meaning. the moving of stones like monumentally. it's like messing with international law. is the most disputed area you name it notice it just because people told us. but he says it is like a good place to build a new flat you think they'll be like because my friends want to be like to buy something before we even constructed i was coming up and. it says this is the fail stone being set for the new god willing of the one facing the holy capital of his i pay so much money for rent in london in one in london and here in one

an old jewish village. i'd like to show what happened to the jewish community in the past but even more importantly i would like to show you what the jewish community is like today in the former soviet union. i think you will be surprised. announcer: a 100 years ago russia was the center of the jewish world with 5 to 6 million jews living there. although russia's largest ethnic group, most lived in poverty and persecution. then came the bolshevik revolution. hoffman: the soviets systematically destroyed any kind of base for religious affiliation. they closed synagogues. they closed jewish schools, sent rabbis and teachers to jail and prison. and tried to convert everyone to their brand of materialist atheism. announcer: then came the nazis. between 1941 and 1945 soviet jews were savagely persecuted. subjected to every possible pain and humiliation and murdered in mass executions. eckstein: this is babiyar outside of kiev here in the ukraine. one of hundreds of killing fields from world war ii's holocaust th

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trench reverence for jesus where he was compared to moses and amos and other jewish heroes. >> well,what distinguishes the theology of jews for jesus from christian theology? >> well, not much when it comes to the person of jesus. we would be very conventional in that rard but let me say that while dr. prothero has done a good job of pointing out what the academic view of jesus is in the jewish community, i think that there needs to be a little bit of an update in terms of what seems to be more of the man on the street in the jewish community. >> what are you referring to that he wrote? >> well, he talks about the reclamation of jesus, and that's good, and he says that samuel sandmouth is perhaps the leader of today's thought with regard to jews' views of jesus but the man on the street in the jewish community there's a tremendous schedulessia within the jewish community, we're deeply divided and i think you can see this most clearly in the response in the jewish community to mel gibson's "the "passion of the christ"." you have on the one hand abraham foxman of the antidefamation lea

the narrow meaning of poetry, poems, some jewish, ancient and modern, some non-jewish, including her own, but more generally, i want to say there's much poetry in the book, and the people that she describes, and i have a number of personal favorites which i think poetry of the book we'll talk about as we go along. let me -- you can tell me what i said wrong about the book, or answer questions i should ask, but let me start in the following way. in a way, the first question, the most natural question to ask you about this book, and especially a personal book is why did you go to israel, and why did you stay? i'm not going to let you answer that yet because i want to come back to that after we talk about a few things, and i think the first thing to focus on is, in a way, one part of the substance of the book is you say after, you know, coming to israel for whatever republicans you came there and experiencing it, one thing that you were powerfully impressed by was the number of misconceptions and misunderstandings about israel, and, of course, as you know, perhaps also actually intentio

bible in greek. >> the jewish bible in greek. what was the language that the -- that was translated, the original language? jesus spoke in aramaic, correct? >> probably. >> and that was first translated into hebrew? >> the jewish bible is, for the most part, in hebrew. there are a few parts in aramaic. >> then it was translated into greek for the common man. >> for the greek-speaking common jew in minus 200. >> ok. now, it's your contention, is it not, that when the translation occurred between hebrew and greek there was a mistake made. what was the mistake? >> you know, that's augustine's contention too, i'm in good company. >> you mean the saint? >> yes. yes. >> of hippo? >> yes, one of my favorites. this is something that greek-speaking christians were aware of as early as 150. >> what is the word in question? >> the word -- it's like the word for the parthenon because athena was a virgin goddess, the word is parthenos and that's the word that appears in greek of isaiah 7:14 but it's not the order in the original hebrew. >> wh

against human trafficking; national council of jewish women, jewish reel fund, -- we then realize would needed a wider coalition in order to be more effective we reached out to a large variety of the government sectors. in february 2008 the jewish coalition held a conference against human trafficking which included agencies such as the san francisco commission on the status of women, representative of the mayor's office and other nonprofits. this event also attracted members of the state assembly and a few congressional offices. at a meeting following our conference a i was asked to chair the larger group and my condition was that there be a cochair from the mayor's office at that time was catherine dodd. the san francisco collaborative against human traffic was born. in 2010 - from the beginning emily morassie (sounds like) executive director of the san francisco commission on the status of women was always involved as well as theresa sparks, executive director of the human rights commission. they were not only the core of the beginning but also generously offered to help us and suppor

were involved civically but not involved in the jewish community or those involved in the jewish organizations but not in the broader civic realm. milton and i were in the former category. i was working for barbara boxer at the time and milton who you grew up in politics was involved with friends of the urban forest and a leader in many ways but had only recently moved back to san francisco after years on the east coast to help care for his ailing father and spend more time with family among other things, so participating in this program was a way for him to start the next chapter of his life back in san francisco to build new friendships, and to reconnect with the local community. i think it's fair to say that he was view as the older statesman of the group. not because of his age. there were many other similar people his age but because of his sage like quality. milton was a wise soul and every one recognized it and benefits from it. soon after the program ended both he and i joined the board of the democratic jewish club and milton became president the following year. just two years after h

i am jewish actually not. thirty two parties are vying for one hundred twenty seats in the knesset and already their leaders are talking coalitions and the division of power will keep you updated with news and analysis of what they're up to through the day and beyond the close of the polls which is that midnight t.v. . how will change with to run develop we'll settle it expands just isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america we'll let you know who survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides. well it's of glitz and berlin as german and french leaders celebrate fifty years of their country's alliance the hugs and handshakes come despite their not yet agreeing on how to cure the eurozone debt contagion or overcome deep foreign policy divisions assessing whether there's more lows than highs in franco german relations right now here's peter all over. well it's certainly a meeting that's filled with pomp and circumstance but they as they celebrate the formal ic

the phrase the jewish lobby offends some people. i don't think it's only neo-cons finding that offensive and the remarks about apac and pro-israel calling some of the tactics stupid and can't deny them because they're on tape. i think you will see him try to tune down the remarks and move toward the substance and where i think jim is right and probably not that far from where the american people and maybe a lot of america's jewish community are on a lot of the foreign policy issue. >> how much of this in your reporting or interviewing with sources saying that this is about his opposition to the war in iraq, not revenge or payback, but perhaps, i don't know what would be the word but it seems that seems to be a thorn in the sigh still of some republicans. >> i think especially with republican senators, there's still some resentment. i think you saw some with lindsey graham on sunday about hagel really being the first prominent republican to step off the bus on the iraq war under president bush and say this is headed in the wrong dire