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Haifa (Wikimedia Commons/Piotr Musioł)
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Haifa’s lesser-known queer history tells its own story

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb November 3, 2025November 3, 2025
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Grokipedia has a weird habit of always agreeing with Elon Musk

Mira Fox by Mira Fox November 3, 2025November 3, 2025
A memorial to those who died in the pogrom in Kishinev (Chisinau, Moldova). (Wikicommons/Duesseljan)
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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
Eli Sharabi
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In the tunnels of Gaza, hostage Eli Sharabi found a way to be a blessing

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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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Illustrator of ‘Sammy Spider’ Jewish children’s books dies at 83

by Penny Schwartz October 27, 2025October 27, 2025
Seymour Hersh in "Cover-Up" (Courtesy Netflix)
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‘I barely trust you guys’: A legendary journalist gets the documentary treatment

by J. Staff October 24, 2025October 24, 2025
Still from Nobody Wants This TV show
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What the new season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ gets right — and very wrong — about Judaism

Mira Fox by Mira Fox October 24, 2025October 24, 2025
"STU," reads the belt buckle on Broke-Ass Stuart, aka Stuart Schuffman, seen here outside San Francisco City Hall. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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From zines to zeitgeist: 20 years of Broke-Ass Stuart, chronicler of the city

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb October 23, 2025October 23, 2025

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