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A 1917 issue of the Israelite, published by India's Bene Israel community
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From Jamaica to India to Zimbabwe, Jewish newspapers have held us together

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 13, 2026February 13, 2026
An ebullient Isa Kremer performs, date unknown. (Bain News Service)
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This chanteuse brought Yiddish music to life a century ago

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 30, 2026January 30, 2026
An undated photo of Jewish soccer phenom Erno Schwarz. (Forward Archive)
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In the 1920s, Europe’s Jewish soccer players wowed American fans

by Chana Pollack January 14, 2026January 14, 2026
Miss Ray Frank in Stockton's Daily Record newspaper in 1897. (CDNC)
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Was Ray Frank of Oakland the first woman rabbi?

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 26, 2025December 26, 2025
Director Rob Reiner in a discussion following a screening of the film "LBJ" at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 (Jay Godwin)
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Rob Reiner told J. he saw political activism through a Jewish lens

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 16, 2025December 17, 2025
In the 1940s, we often wrote of "the Palestine Problem."
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A second look back at 130 years of our publication

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 2, 2025December 2, 2025
This photo of the post-earthquake ruins of Temple Emanu-El's original building appeared on the cover of our Sept. 21, 1906 issue.
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A trip through 13 decades of this paper’s archives, and a happy 130th to us

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 21, 2025November 21, 2025
Avoid Halloween disappointment in 1926. (J. Archives)
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Halloween, once a treat for Jews, became a tricky topic in the ’80s and ’90s

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 30, 2025November 2, 2025
Left: The original Temple Emanu-El, which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. Right: Portrait of Julie Rosewald from "A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches," 1893
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Meet Madam Julie Rosewald, the world’s first woman cantor

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky October 21, 2025October 21, 2025
An ad from a 1991 issue of the Jewish Bulletin, this publication's previous name.
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Breast cancer is still a fight but it’s no longer a death sentence

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb October 10, 2025October 10, 2025

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