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Haifa (Wikimedia Commons/Piotr Musioł)
Posted inIdeas

Haifa’s lesser-known queer history tells its own story

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb November 3, 2025November 3, 2025
A number of Bay Area organizations are set to take part in the Global Day of Jewish Learning, an annual, free event being held this year on Sunday, Nov. 9. (Anastasia Belousova / Pexels)
Posted inJewish Life

Bay Area gearing up for Global Day of Jewish Learning on Nov. 9 

Rahel Knight (Courtesy) by Rahel Knight November 3, 2025November 3, 2025
parents and son smiling
Posted inThe J. Interview

How Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin find grace in a shattered world

Chanan Tigay by Chanan Tigay October 31, 2025November 2, 2025
JFCS donation barrels
Posted inBay Area

Local JFCS prepares for influx of need as SNAP cutoff looms

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb October 31, 2025November 2, 2025
U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna
Posted inLetters

JCRC ‘brouhaha.’ Ro Khanna and Zionism. Evil done in name of religion.

by J. Readers October 31, 2025October 31, 2025
The Northern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame “class of 2025" from left, Hon. Quentin Kopp, Amit Elor, Roxy Bernstein, Dennis Brown and Erica Arteseros. (Courtesy NCJSHOF)
Posted inOur Crowd

Happenings, honors, awards, comings and goings, opportunities — October 2025

Rahel Knight (Courtesy) by Rahel Knight October 31, 2025October 31, 2025
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens (left) with S.F. Emanu-El Rabbi Emeritus Jonathan Singer in conversation on Oct. 28. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Bret Stephens talks politics, Israel and Mamdani in S.F. as protesters chant outside

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi October 30, 2025October 30, 2025
A memorial to those who died in the pogrom in Kishinev (Chisinau, Moldova). (Wikicommons/Duesseljan)
Posted inOff the Shelf

Modern ‘erasure poetry’ and 1904 Bialik poem are reverberations of Jewish past

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman October 30, 2025October 31, 2025
J. staff writer Emma Goss (right) moderated a Z3 Conference panel last year called “Why are the People of the Book Struggling to Tell a Story?” Goss will lead another discussion at this year's Z3. (Courtesy Z3)
Posted inBay Area

Z3 Conference in Palo Alto to tackle pressing questions facing world Jewry

by J. Staff October 29, 2025October 30, 2025
Future building for the JFCS Holocaust Center.
Posted inLocal Voice

Teach Jewish history in California classrooms, and you change the world

Anita Friedman (Courtesy  JFCS) by Anita Friedman October 29, 2025October 29, 2025

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