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J. Editor-in-Chief Chanan Tigay (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)

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J. hires Chanan Tigay, noted journalist, author and professor, as new editor-in-chief

by Dan Pine March 4, 2024March 4, 2024

A Black Panthers protest in Tel Aviv, 1971. The large sign in the middle reads "Golda, teach us Yiddish." (Photo/National Library of Israel)

Books

New book fills history gap about Israel’s Mizrahi-led Black Panther movement

by Dan Pine February 15, 2024May 2, 2024

Left: Eyal Mevorach Twito was killed in fighting in Gaza on Jan. 22. (Photo/Courtesy); The next day, some 100 people attended a memorial service for him at Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland, which his family attended when they lived in the Bay Area. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)

‘I had a child, and he is no more’: Oakland Hebrew Day School alum Eyal Twito, 22, killed in Gaza fighting

by Dan Pine January 23, 2024January 26, 2024

Kibbutz Kfar Aza took massive damage in the Oct. 7 attacks. (Photo/Courtesy Laura Lauder)

Devastation and signs of hope seen on Federation mission to Israel

by Dan Pine December 1, 2023December 4, 2023

Wilderness Torah's 2022 Rosh Hashanah seder at Green Valley Farms. (Photo/Julia Maryanska for Wilderness Torah)

Earth-based groups embrace the Sephardic Rosh Hashanah seder this year

by Dan Pine September 5, 2023September 6, 2023

Michelle (left) and Jeff Leopold remember their son Trevor in their home in Greenbrae, Aug 27, 2023. The Leopolds' son Trevor died four years ago at the age of 18 when he took an oxycodone pill he didn’t know was laced with fentanyl. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)

The fentanyl crisis is taking the lives of young Jews

by Dan Pine September 1, 2023July 12, 2024

Rainbow Gathering photographed at Modoc National Forest, California, July 4, 1984. Appearing at CJM as part of a retrospective of the work of Jay Blakesberg. (Photo/Jay Blakesberg)

‘Those artists were rebels’: Bay Area photographer Jay Blakesberg gets rockin’ retrospective at CJM

by Dan Pine August 28, 2023August 29, 2023

A Sukkot celebration at B'nai Torah (Photo/Courtesy)

News

Why an East Contra Costa temple is ‘courting’ a Walnut Creek synagogue

by Dan Pine August 22, 2023August 22, 2023

Left: Offir Gutelzon, one of the local Israeli organizers of UnXeptable, during a pro-democracy march that crossed the Mary Ave. Bridge in Cupertino, July 23, 2023. Right: Anti-Israel graffiti appeared on the bridge a few weeks later. (Photos/Courtesy UnXeptable)

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Anti-Israel graffiti scrawled on Cupertino bridge that hosted Israeli pro-democracy protest

by Dan Pine August 16, 2023August 17, 2023

This illustration accompanied the essay "I was an Iranian Jewish refugee" by Tabby Refael in the inaugural issue of Distinctions.

New online journal elevates contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi voices

by Dan Pine August 10, 2023August 11, 2023