However, one of the most sweeping cost cutting actions comes from instructions directed by the judicial branch of government with a ruling from the Supreme Court on the overcrowding of prisons in California.
This week, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal reported that over the past two months, allegedly acting on instructions from the Federation, two local synagogues canceled an event sponsored by the local branch of the Zionist Organization of America at which Irvine Rabbi Dov Fischer was to present information about OTI's anti-Israel activities.