The top NYC real estate events next week Next week brings a new bundle of real estate events! On March 14, B’nai B’rith is hosting its Real Estate Luncheon at the Ivy Room, 944 8th Avenue from noon to 2 p.m. The theme of this month’s luncheon is “Essex Crossing – Transformation of the Lower East Side. Read more » »

Penn State Worthington Scranton alumnus Thomas F. Zenty III is shown with his parents, Edna and the late Thomas F. Zenty II, at Penn State Worthington Scranton’s 2010 commencement ceremony, where he served as commencement speaker. Read more » »

WASHINGTON, D.C. (JTA) — Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales said his country will move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May. Speaking at the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington D.C. Read more » »

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, right, receiving an award from B’nai B’rith. (B’nai B’rith) RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Guatemala’s highest court for civil law rejected an attempt to call off moving the country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Read more » »

By Jennifer Goddard for Santa Barbara Executive Roundtable | March 2, 2018 | 1: 28 p.m. Deborah Naish The Santa Barbara Executive Roundtable (SABER) will present Deborah Naish, founder of Naish Partners, a business coaching and consulting firm, for a talk on ways to improve Conversation Intelligence to accelerate business growth. Read more » »

Jewish ChronicleTrump’s immigration hardlinerJewish ChronicleHardline rhetoric on immigration in Mr Trump’s State of the Union address last month sparked criticism from B’nai B’rith, the Anti-Defamation League and the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society. Earlier this month, 17 Jewish groups — among them J Street … Read more » »

An arm of the oldest Jewish service community in the world is demanding an apology from one Winnipeg university, who they say held an anti-Israel event on Wednesday, the start of the Jewish holiday Purim. Read more » »

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB Presents: Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Ph.D. lectures on Biblical Women and Gender Constructions: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives on Women in the Bible Thursday, March 8 / 7: 30 p.m. / Free Santa Barbara Hillel 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista Rabbi Prof. Dr. Read more » »

An artist rendering of The Residences on Porter, the 120-unit apartment complex proposed for seniors at the shuttered Thurgood Marshall Middle School on Porter Street. (Prellwitz Chilinski Associates) LYNN — It’s back to the drawing board for the closed Thurgood Marshall Middle School. Read more » »

Launching a last-minute damage control campaign, Polish officials have descended on Washington, trying to convince American officials, lawmakers and Jewish leaders that the uproar over Warsaw’s recent Holocaust law is no more than a “misunderstanding. Read more » »