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Jumping into this conversation, its a little bit of a different kind of conversation that we usually have, but lgbtq life in the Faith Community and Jewish Community, lets just say to start out by talking about what your experience has been in the Jewish Community yourself. Maxine . Well i am going to date myself but i am twice blessed, being a lesbian and being jewish, it was very difficult because i didnt come out until graduate school. Because i didnt think being [null] had anything to being jewish. So i had no role models. I had no one to model myself after, and i didnt think i could be je...

By cochair susan tourial and im pleased to welcome me to the book festival awardwinning afternoon featuring journalist dan ephron in conversation with nancy updike, producer for this American Life. And her second journalist, mike kelly, Senior Executive producer at georgia public broadcasting. We are also happy to welcome cspan booktv to a book festival programming this afternoon. On behalf of the book festival we are truly grateful for the support of barbara, this years presenting sponsors greenberg and wells fargo. In addition to our over 25 valued sponsors who support our book festival year...

Good afternoon. [laughter] welcome. Im deborah jacobs, cochair of the 24th edition of the book festival of the mjcca. My cochair and i are pleased to welcome you to the book festivals awardwinning afternoon featuring journalist dan ephron in conversation with nancy updike, producer for this American Life, and our second awardwinning journalist, mike kelly, in conversation with bill [inaudible] Senior Executive producer at georgia public broadcasting. We are also happy to welcome cspans booktv to our book festival programming this amp. This afternoon. On behalf of the book festival, we are trul...

Im going to do. Speaking about being all over the map, romney will pingpong back and forth between ohio and iowa the next three days. The republican nominee is casting the race as moving his way and a ground falling out from President Team obama. These debates have super charged our campaign. Theres no question about it. Were seeing more and more enthusiasm, more and more support. Weve gone through four debates with the Vice President ial debate and my debates. And we havent heard an agenda from the president. Thats why his campaign is taking on water and our campaign is full speed ahead. They...

Could be you or me. Time to do something. The police helped them set up a neighborhood Crime Prevention council, surveillance cameras and crime was cut down substantially. The cameras were rolling for this victim but now police want neighbors to organize, communicate and cooperate with them. The reason being is that police say the criminals are better organized than the neighbors. Police say the two men they arrested are part of a gang thats been victimizing oakland residents for some time. Reporting at Oakland Police headquarters im allen wong, abc7 news. A dozen members. Local gangs were tak...