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Deaths for the week of Dec. 20-26, 2020

by J. Readers December 23, 2020January 5, 2021

The Maccabees depicted in a page from a 14th-century Italian illuminated manuscript.

Hanukkah isn’t ‘woke’; Antifa dangers downplayed; BDS, BDS, BDS; etc.

by J. Readers December 18, 2020December 18, 2020

Jackson Pioneer Jewish Cemetery, established in 1857. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)

Gold Country reporting trip is a hit; Hooray for Quentin Kopp; Sore about Soros; etc.

by J. Readers December 10, 2020December 10, 2020

Students admitted to UC Berkeley under affirmative action policies implemented in the university's Educational Opportunity Program, ca. 1985. (Photo/Courtesy UC Berkeley)

Letters of ‘no useful purpose’; JCRC was wrong on Prop. 16; Does America owe anyone?; etc.

by J. Readers November 24, 2020November 24, 2020

Midnite Bagel is one of three new bagel operations that have popped up in the Bay Area in recent months.

Overpriced bagels; Originalists want the impossible; etc.

by J. Readers November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

President Donald Trump during a break in an NBC News town hall event at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, Oct. 15, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Brendan Smialowski-AFP via Getty Images)

State propositions, for and against; Trump, for and against; Bad mask-wearing on our cover; etc.

by J. Readers October 30, 2020

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives for President Barack Obama's State of the Union address in the Capitol, Jan. 20, 2015. (Photo/JTA-Bill Clark-CQ Roll Call-Getty Images)

Don’t call them ‘concentration camps’; Closer look at Props. 15-17; RBG’s legacy; best bagels in the Bay

by J. Readers October 15, 2020October 15, 2020

A sign in front of Zoom headquarters in San Jose during a protest demanding that the company not host an upcoming event featuring Leila Khaled. (Photo/Facebook-Shield of David)

S.F. State should be ashamed; Holocaust education essential; Trump thinks he’s Churchill; etc.

by J. Readers October 2, 2020October 7, 2020

a big glass building with students walking through a lawn in front

Leila Khaled at S.F. State; antisemitism in ethnic studies; forgotten psalmists; etc.

by J. Readers September 21, 2020

Two children walk through rubble near a beach in the Gaza Strip in 2017. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)

Lehmann’s departure from GTU, for and against; UAE deal, for and against; Kamala Harris, for; Hamas, against

by J. Readers September 4, 2020September 4, 2020