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The S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund is making changes to its board.

Thank you, Federation; You forgot our temple shop; Empty shelves and anti-Semitism

by J. Readers April 3, 2020April 6, 2020

A firefighter in Australia hoses down trees to protect nearby homes from bush fires near the town of Nowra in the state of New South Wales on Dec. 31, 2019. (JTA/Saeed Kahn/AFP via Getty Images)

It could be worse; Misuse of Torah; Untying infertility knots; A Polish kook; etc.

by J. Readers March 20, 2020March 20, 2020

2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders with IfNotNow volunteers in New Hampshire on June 29, 2019. (Courtesy IfNotNow)

Shame on Bernie; Voting on ‘Torah values’; No such thing as too much justice; etc.

by J. Readers March 6, 2020

Supporters of Donald Trump hold signs in Hebrew and English as the president speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas, April 6, 2019. (JTA/Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Dershowitz was right; slavery reparations are misguided; Orthodox Jews wrong on Trump; etc.

by J. Readers February 21, 2020

Alan Dershowitz at NEP Studios in New York, Feb. 3, 2016 (Photo/JTA-John Lamparski-Getty Images for Hulu)

Title VI expansion is bad for the Jews; Dershowitz is bad for the Jews; Bernie is bad for America; etc.

by J. Readers February 7, 2020February 10, 2020

An aerial view of Israel's largest settlement, Maale Adumim. (JTA/David Silverman/Getty Images)

Iran Deal bad; ethnic studies bad; Hungarian war criminal bad; Tikkun olam good; etc.

by J. Readers January 23, 2020January 23, 2020

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Shame on this newspaper; scary times on campus; Jell-O is bad for you; etc.

by J. Readers January 10, 2020January 10, 2020

An ad for the Maccabi Games in the Budapest metro (Photo/Maya Mirsky)

Budapest Jews are doing just fine; Trump’s Title VI EO, for and against

by J. Readers December 20, 2019

Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, speaking at the J Street National Conference in 2018 (Photo/JTA-Michael Brochstein-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)

Back-and-forths continue as our readers debate J Street, settlements

by J. Readers December 13, 2019December 17, 2019

Former Member of Knesset Tzipi Livni speaking to J. at the Z3 conference at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, Nov. 10, 2019. (Saul Bromberger)

The joy of choosing Judaism; don’t distort J Street; not enough religion at Z3; etc.

by J. Readers November 27, 2019