Anti Semitism

An e-mail alleging anti-Semitic remarks by the local leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference set off a weeklong firestorm in the Jewish community that was only beginning to cool Friday. The e-mail was sent to friends April 4 by Jewish philanthropist Daphna Ziman after she attended an awards ceremony that day sponsored by the Western Province of Kappa Alpha Psi, a historically African American fraternity. She described the Rev.

At the end of it all, Daphna Ziman and the Rev. Eric Lee were joking about the good cry they had together, pledging to work together to help children, and hugging each other goodbye Thursday. The two, who clenched hands at one point during the conversation at Ziman's Beverly Hills home, had clearly gotten over the controversy that erupted around a speech Lee made at a banquet April 4.

Thousands cheered Sunday as the blue-and-white Star of David flag was raised for the first time in front of the Israeli Consulate on Wilshire Boulevard. "As we mark 60 years of Israeli independence, as we paint Wilshire Boulevard blue and white, we must reaffirm in one voice our support for the Jewish state," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told those gathered for the flag-raising ceremony.

A Jewish group announced this week that it will investigate alleged anti-Semitic incidents at UC Irvine, a campus with a history of tension between Muslim and Jewish students. The Hillel Foundation of Orange County said the investigation will attempt to document "an alarming increase in anti-Semitism" at the school, an official with the group said. Hillel is an international group of Jewish college and university students with more than 500 chapters.

Korean American community leaders who met with a top official at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles on Friday said they were disgusted by anti-Semitic depictions in a comic book by a popular South Korean author and vowed to mobilize community resources to launch a protest against the publisher. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center, met with the group and said he would visit Seoul on March 15 to raise concerns about the comic book.

The author of a best-selling comic book series intended to teach children about other countries said he would change a chapter on Jews that has been called anti-Semitic and similar to Nazi propaganda. Lee Won-bok maintained, however, that his depiction of Jewish control of American media and politics was based on fact and "commonly believed." Images from the book "echo classic Nazi canards," Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center said this month.

The mystery of how and why a government wiretap summary falsely attributed anti-Jewish slurs to officials of a Muslim charity remained unanswered Tuesday as federal prosecutors pledged to look into the matter. In court papers filed late Monday, the U.S.

A federal judge in Dallas has denied a request to declassify thousands of pages of FBI evidence in the prosecution of a Muslim charity, but said it was disturbing that a recently unsealed document falsely accused charity officials of anti-Jewish slurs. In his ruling against lawyers for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, U.S. District Judge A.

WHEN asked why there is so much moral ambiguity in his films, notably in "Black Book," the World War II thriller that opened here last week, Paul Verhoeven volunteers a story from his boyhood in Holland. During the last winter of the war, everyone in Holland was starving -- it was known as the Hunger Winter. Battered by Allied attacks, the occupying Germans took any available food for themselves.

Acting Los Angeles Fire Chief Douglas L. Barry eclipsed his own news conference about his first 100 days Tuesday by announcing that he had just learned of a new report of possible firefighter harassment. But city officials said that Barry's swift launch of investigations into the allegation of anti-Semitism at a fire station, and another case disclosed last week, were a better demonstration than a speech about reforms being underway.