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Daniel Klein, CEO of Jewish Silicon Valley (left) and ADL's Oren Segal. (Emma Goss/J. Staff)
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How AI is helping antisemites spread extremist ideas online, in plain sight

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 6, 2025November 6, 2025
Etgar Keret speaks with Ira Glass
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In S.F., Israeli writer Etgar Keret unfolds stories about ‘my dead mom’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 4, 2025November 4, 2025
Haifa (Wikimedia Commons/Piotr Musioł)
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Haifa’s lesser-known queer history tells its own story

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Grokipedia has a weird habit of always agreeing with Elon Musk

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

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman October 30, 2025October 31, 2025
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by Rabba Sara Hurwitz October 30, 2025October 30, 2025
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Was the ‘Yiddish Sherlock Holmes’ the first Jewish superhero?

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar October 29, 2025October 29, 2025
Nancy Gonchar at 32 with her dog Emma, named for the anarchist revolutionary Emma Goldman, on a 40 acre farm that she owned with a partner in upstate New York. (Courtesy)
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Queer Jewish elders share their lives with USF students

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss October 28, 2025January 20, 2026
Katherine Janus Kahn and Sammy Spider books
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Illustrator of ‘Sammy Spider’ Jewish children’s books dies at 83

by Penny Schwartz October 27, 2025October 27, 2025

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