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This vintage postcard shows the Liebenberg monument outside the University of Vienna, erected in 1890. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
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Jews were ostracized, attacked at European colleges back in 1924

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 26, 2024May 29, 2024
Left: Stained glass experts removed 35 panels of stained glass panels from Congregation B'nai Emunah's former building in San Francisco, Jan. 2024. (Photo/Congregation Am Tikvah); Right: Our 1977 story on the burning of a Nazi bookstore. (Photo/Peggy Isaak)
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S.F. synagogue’s stained-glass windows shine light on ugly Nazi incident

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 8, 2024May 29, 2024
An article on a scandal within the Jewish National Fund in a July 2000 issue of J.
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The Jews (and this newspaper) love trees

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 24, 2024May 29, 2024
The front page of the 1968 issue of J. immediately following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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MLK first graced our pages in 1957, but civil rights coverage went back decades

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 11, 2024May 29, 2024
There isn't much we can say to explain the imagery in "Who Stole Hanukkah?," a 1997 CD-ROM game. (Screenshot/YouTube)
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During the web’s infancy, exploring Hanukkah virtually was clunky and a bit miraculous

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 6, 2023May 29, 2024
During World War II, Thanksgiving was a chance to sell war bonds, as in this ad that appeared in J. in 1944.
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A bounty of holiday ads, from plum pudding to war bonds 

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 20, 2023November 20, 2023
Our front page on May 21, 1948
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How we’ve covered violence and war in Israel for 75 years

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 25, 2023
From the March 14, 1986 issue of the Jewish Bulletin (Photo/J. Archives)
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Dianne Feinstein debuted in the Jewish press at age 13

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 13, 2023October 13, 2023
A 1933 photograph of the interior of Temple Emanu-El decorated for Sukkot. (Photo/J. Archives)
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The ancient festival of Sukkot needed a Golden State touch

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 2, 2023October 2, 2023
A newspaper page with the headline "Jews of color relish Chanukah party's welcome mat" and a photo of a Black man, a white man and a Black boy singing together
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How Jews of color have shown up (or not) in this newspaper over the decades

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten September 20, 2023September 20, 2023

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