The Jewish Press | September 30, 2016 | C15
5776: The year in review
The Jewish Theological SemContinued from page C14 inary announces the sale of $96 The Hungarian Holocaust million worth of real estate asdrama Son of Saul wins an Oscar sets and its intention to use the for best foreign language film. funds to upgrade its New York Other Jewish winners at the facility. The seminary, consid2016 Academy Awards are Amy, ered the flagship institution of the documentary about the late the Conservative movement, Jewish singer-songwriter Amy says it intends to build a stateWinehouse, and Michael Sugar, of-the-art library, auditorium who wins for best picture as coand conference facilities, and a producer of Spotlight, the story new 150-bed residence hall on of the Boston Globe investigative team led by Jewish editor Marty Sen. Bernie Sanders speaking at the its main campus. Baron that exposed sex scandals Iowa Democratic Wing Ding in Clear Republican presidential hopeful Lake, Aug. 14, 2015. Donald Trump disavows the in the Catholic Church. The Canadian Parliament for- Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images support of David Duke after mally condemns the Boycott, Divestment and Sanc- earlier claiming he knew nothing about the former tions movement, saying it “promotes the Ku Klux Klan leader’s views. In response, the Antidemonization and delegitimization of the State of Is- Defamation League announces it will be providing all rael.” Passed by a vote of 229-51, the motion was in- presidential candidates with information about hate troduced by the opposition Conservative Party but groups so they can better determine which endorsements to accept and reject. won support from the ruling Liberal Party as well.
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Jewish comedian Garry Shandling dies in Los Angeles at 66. Shandling wrote for several sitcoms before starring in his own shows, including The Larry Sanders Show, which aired on HBO in the 1990s and earned Shandling 18 Emmy Award nominations. Venice launches a yearlong commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the world’s first official Jewish ghetto. Among the many events scheduled for the anniversary is an appearance by Jewish U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who presides over a mock trial of Shylock, the Jewish moneylender character from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Microsoft pulls its artificial intelligence tweeting robot after it posts several anti-Semitic comments. The software company had launched the so-called chatbot as an experiment but quickly paused the endeavor after the controversial tweets, several of which expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler. A Pew study of Israelis finds that 48 percent of the country’s Jews agree that Arabs should be “expelled or transferred” out of the country. The finding, the most shocking in a wide-ranging study of Israeli attitudes, is based on interviews with 5,600 Israelis conducted between October 2014 and May 2015. Israeli leaders condemn the actions of a solider caught on video shooting an apparently incapacitated Palestinian lying on the ground. “What happened today in Hebron does not represent the values of the IDF,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says following the release of the video, shot by the human rights group B’Tselem. The soldier is charged with manslaughter in May and later goes on trial. Thousands of delegates attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference in Washington featuring appearances by most contenders for the presidency -- most controversially Donald Trump, who sparks much talk of protests and walkouts in the days leading up to the conclave. Speaking the morning after Trump’s address to the gathering, AIPAC President Lillian Pinkus issues a rare apology for Trump’s attacks on President Barack Obama, saying the group is “deeply disappointed that so many people applauded a sentiment that we neither agree with or condone.” Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and John Kasich also address the conference, while Bernie Sanders issues a written statement to the group from the campaign trail. Merrick Garland, the chief of the U.S. Court of Days ahead of the New York primary, Bernie Appeals for the District of Columbia, is nominated Sanders and Hillary Clinton engage in a heated to replace Antonin Scalia, who died in February, on exchange over Israel at a debate in Brooklyn, the Supreme Court. In his acceptance speech, Garwith the Vermont senator land emotionally recalls his grandparents who had accusing the former secrefled anti-Semitism for better lives in the United tary of state of neglecting States. Republicans vow not to consider his nomithe Palestinians and reiternation during President Obama’s last year in office. ating his charge that Israel used disproportionMark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of ate force in Gaza in 2014. Clinton says she Facebook, is the world’s richest Jew, according to worked hard to bring peace to the region as Forbes. The magazine’s annual list of the world’s secretary of state. Clinton won the primary in billionaires shows Zuckerberg surpassing Oracle CEO New York, home to the country’s largest Jewish Larry Ellison to claim the top spot among Jews. population, 58-42 percent. A majority of professors at Oberlin College Bernie Sanders sign a letter condemning the “anti-Semitic names three promiFacebook posts” by a fellow faculty member. nent critics of Israel The letter, signed by 174 professors, does not to the committee charged with formuname Joy Karega, the rhetoric and composition lating the Democratic Party platform: professor whose posts, including one accusing Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Israel and “Rothschild-led bankers” of responMuslim elected to Congress; James sibility for downing an airliner over Ukraine in Zogby, the president of the Arab Ameri2014, drew widespread attention. can Institute; and Cornel West, a Bernie Sanders suspends his Jewish outreach philosopher and supporter of the BDS director after revelations of social media posts movement. Days later, Sanders releases that used profanity to describe Israeli Prime a statement emphasizing that while he Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Simone Zimsupports Israel’s right to live in peace, merman, a former activist with J Street, reportlasting peace will not come without “fair edly called Netanyahu a “manipulative asshole,” and respectful treatment of the Palestinthough she later changed the expletive to ian people.” “politician.” In an announcement timed to the anThe first same-sex Jewish wedding ceremony nual independence celebrations in Isin Latin America is held at a synagogue in Arrael, the nation’s Central Bureau of gentina. Some 300 guests attend the wedding of Statistics reports the population has Victoria Escobar and Romina Charur at the risen to 8.52 million residents, a tenfold NCI Emanu El Temple in Buenos Aires. See 5776: The year in review page C16
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