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David Waksberg

David Waksberg is the CEO of S.F.-based Jewish LearningWorks.

David Waksberg at a Simchat Torah rally for Soviet Jews in front of the San Francisco Soviet consulate in 1984 with son Raphael Bob-Waksberg on his chest. (Photo/Courtesy Waksberg)
Posted inLocal Voice

1980s Soviet Jewry activist turns his eyes toward a battle for today: Black Lives Matter

by David Waksberg June 12, 2020June 12, 2020

When I was a teenager, I wore a huge Jewish star around my neck, and on it was the name of Mark Dymshitz, a Soviet Jewish prisoner of conscience. One […]

Rev. Kaloma Smith addresses hundreds of people who gathered Jan. 5 at University AME Zion Church in Palo Alto after the predominantly black church was vandalized. (AME Zion Facebook)
Posted inLocal Voice

Standing in solidarity with others strengthens us when we must stand up for ourselves

by David Waksberg January 7, 2020January 8, 2020
Members of Jewish Youth for Climate Justice at the Sept. 20, 2019, climate protest in San Francisco (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inOpinion

Why we must forge new paths in Jewish education

by David Waksberg November 18, 2019
Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in 1915
Posted inUncategorized

My grandparents loved their adopted land. Would they feel safe in America today?

by David Waksberg January 14, 2019January 15, 2019
The Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews held daily vigils in front of the Soviet Consulate, like this one in Nov. 1986, to protest the USSR policies that made it difficult for Jews to leave Russia. (Photos/Tom Wachs)
Posted inLocal Voice

You know who else separated families trying to cross borders? The Soviets.

by David Waksberg June 29, 2018June 26, 2019
A sign reads "Where are the children?" at an anti-ICE rally in Chicago, June 5, 2018. (Photo/Flickr-Charles Edward Miller CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inLocal Voice

On Father’s Day, I thought of fathers whose children are taken by ICE

by David Waksberg June 18, 2018June 18, 2018
A page of Talmud, tractate Bava Batra
Posted inLocal Voice, Opinion

Applying Jewish first aid to the damage words can do

by David Waksberg January 18, 2017January 19, 2017
Posted inUncategorized

Elie Wiesel shattered silence on Holocaust, Soviet Jews

by David Waksberg July 8, 2016December 29, 2016
Posted inUncategorized

the column | Another essential teaching tool: the art of argument

by David Waksberg January 8, 2016December 29, 2016
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Posted inOpinion

Domestic violence isnt just a womens issue its about men, too

by David Waksberg May 8, 2015December 29, 2016

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