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Aitan Melamud (center), now a retired urologist in the Bay Area, with fellow soldiers during the 1973 Yom Kippur War (Photo/Courtesy Aitan Melamud)
Posted inFrom the Archives

In 1973, the Yom Kippur War put Israel’s survival at stake. Here’s how this newspaper covered it.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 28, 2022September 28, 2022
Illustration from a 1917 issue of this newspaper, showing Rosh Hashanah "Jewish New Year's Customs Observed in Ancient Times."
Posted inFrom the Archives

From Rosh Hashanah columns of yore, hopes for the future

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 21, 2022September 21, 2022
Our front page tribute to the Munich 11, 50 years ago this week.
Posted inFrom the Archives

50 years ago this week: How Bay Area Jews mourned Israeli Olympians killed in Munich Massacre

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 15, 2022
An ad for chicken that says "Get more 'tov' during 'yom tov'"
Posted inFrom the Archives

‘Hazelnuttorten and brodtorten’ for the High Holidays, anyone?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 12, 2022
In 1898, foie gras was cheap
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Whatever happened to $4 per lb. for kosher brisket?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 2, 2022September 2, 2022
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev made the front page of our paper.
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Gorbachev was closely watched in Bay Area, a center of Soviet Jewry activism

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 31, 2022August 31, 2022
An Aug. 25, 1972 article about the growing need for student loans from Hebrew Free Loan.
Posted inFrom the Archives

50 years ago this week, our newspaper was talking about student loans

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 25, 2022August 25, 2022
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai on the USS General M.C. Meigs, 1949 (Photo/Courtesy U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library)
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75 years ago this week: San Francisco was ‘Port of Hope’ for Jewish refugees from Shanghai

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 17, 2022August 17, 2022
A group of Jewish Home residents seen in our Feb. 20, 1959 issue
Posted inFrom the Archives

From Jewish Home to Campus for Jewish Living, over a century of caring for Jewish seniors

by Angela Smalley August 15, 2022August 12, 2022
An article on the sit-in in the Spring 1972 issue of The Jewish Radical, a now-defunct publication.
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Bemoaning the state of Jewish education today, a brief history

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 5, 2022

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