Was in the 80s. When a soviet Jewry Movement begins here in the United States. And the American Jewish Community Found itself in direct, direct defiance of the wishes of the Israeli Government that wanted the russians to go there. And the American Jewish community argued freedom of choice. On immigration. Of course once the russian jews arrive here in large numbers, they really dont want a lot to do with them and ill just end with an anecdote. I mentioned to my own synagogue board, maybe we should have an Outreach Program to russian jews in northeast philadelphia. And one member said out loud, why do we need to do that . I already have somebody to do my nails. Coming up tonight on American History tv, its the history of immigration. Starting at 8 00 p. M. , well show you a comparison of the roles of congress, states, and the president in developing immigration policy. Going all the way back to the colonial period. Then at 9 20 eastern, the origins of the 1882 chinese exclusion act and
Does the Jewish Community Relations Council do . The truth is that the jc rc is the umbrella body for the organized Jewish Community in the bay area, representing the Jewish Community on the vitally important Public Affairs issues, domestic and international, ranging from israel to the civil rights, antisemitism and quality public education. We started just after the holocaust windy american Jewish Community realized the absence of the body, a fatal flaw in the Jewish Community, and we should not be in a position where we cannot bring together a full range of voices within the Jewish Community so that we can advocate effectively on the issues. In a moment, we will get to what drew you to dedicate your life to the organization, and it seems natural to ask at this point, what is the role of the faith based structure in the civic life of the community, especially when you have a country that values separation of church and state, and we are always struggling with the civic issues. For in
Called, shaping San Francisco. Thanks. Yee, welcome to cspan. Welcome to the vast audience at cspan programing across the United States and across the world. Were happy to have you all with us tonight at our shaping San Francisco talks. This talk tonight is on Synthetic Biology, diy meets big capital is the title they gave it. It is really borne out of a long interest i have had, in some ways the roots of shaping San Francisco which is Community Participatory history project but rooted in ses lendings acritical relationship to technology. We started in the mid 90s during the big boom then of interactive multimedia and kind of way before there was even web 1. 0 really. We were already working on this project. Weve gone through quite a few iterations. We all lived through endless rounds of hysteria technology will save us and take us to the Promised Land and so on and so one of the interesting topics for me is to try to think about what is the moment in history that youre living through