berkley, area of history and this center. i thought u.s. history for about 25 years. i am retired now. one of the projects that i had was to try and advance the academic study of religion on the campus which had been a sort of hit and miss operation. a group of us thought we ought to do something about this. we have big grants and we now have this berkley center which works well, is very pluralistic. we study all kinds of religions. it is open for secular as well as faith commitment discussions. we like to say sometimes that the model of the center is released ink i don t know is too religion is too important to be left in the hands of the people that believe in it. your focus there. the contribution i have made is the study of american protestantism. i have been writing about that and i have been incorporated in a number of their projects. i am convening a workshop, bringing in scholars to discuss history of protestantism later this year which is one of the several t
we have only been around 122 years but many don t know we exist. many people who donate to the local jewish federation will get jay newspaper in their mailbox and not know why. they haven t subscribed. that s because they get it as part of their location. people ask what is a jewish newspaper. we look at ourselves as a way to understand the world through a jewish lens. but that s not an uncritical lens and it is not a uniform view. it s a way to give a sense of identity and belonging to the perfect 400,000 jews who live in the san francisco bay area. we have here the third or fourth largest community in america depending on whose numbers you are looking at. we are so geographically dispersed that i as editor and steve as publisher, we look at j the newspaper as a way to give a sense of belonging, give a voice to the geographically and politically and denominationally disparity community. so interesting. i think a lot of people don t realize demographically speaking across t
there may not be a lot of celebrating at yahoo this evening. it s the one anniversary of marissa mayer taking over the top job and aft close, the company posted a beat on second quarter earnings, however, they did miss on revenues and the big concern turned out to be the warning for the third quarter. there is more from the nasdaq tonight, sema. reporter: yahoo s second quarter revenue is short of expectations at $1.07 billion and that s primarily due to a drop in it s display advertising revenue. yahoo s earning at 35 cents a share beat street expectations by 5 cents. the third quarter outlook disappointed the street when we saw shares move to the downside. pvc partners saying yahoo is facing challenges. a couple points made on the conference call on the tumbler acquisition, yahoo says the acquisition is expected to grow yahoo s audience to more than 1 billion monthly visitors. marissa mayers says quote i m encouraged by yahoo s performance. our continued stability and we
there may not be a lot of celebrating at yahoo this evening. it s the one anniversary of marissa mayer taking over the top job and aft close, the company posted a beat on second quarter earnings, however, they did miss on revenues and the big concern turned out to be the warning for the third quarter. there is more from the nasdaq tonight, sema. reporter: yahoo s second quarter revenue is short of expectations at $1.07 billion and that s primarily due to a drop in it s display advertising revenue. yahoo s earning at 35 cents a share beat street expectations by 5 cents. the third quarter outlook disappointed the street when we saw shares move to the downside. pvc partners saying yahoo is facing challenges. a couple points made on the conference call on the tumbler acquisition, yahoo says the acquisition is expected to grow yahoo s audience to more than 1 billion monthly visitors. marissa mayers says quote i m encouraged by yahoo s performance. our continued stability and we
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