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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)
Posted inFrom the Archives

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
The slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei" is seen over the gateway to the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. (Photo/Matthias Köhne via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
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What we keep getting wrong about the Holocaust

by Julia M. Klein February 8, 2024
an bearded man sits at a desk in a room lined with books
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The Lublin Yeshiva Library was thought to be destroyed by the Nazis. Then its books started turning up.

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov February 1, 2024February 1, 2024
Two women light memorial candles
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Lone protester interrupts Holocaust remembrance event in S.F.

Valerie Demicheva by Valerie Demicheva January 27, 2024January 29, 2024
The front page of the 1968 issue of J. immediately following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted inFrom the Archives

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
Elie Wiesel sits at a desk
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Citing risk to Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ judge blocks key parts of Iowa book ban law

by Andrew Lapin January 3, 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
(From left) Dani Colman, Trina Robbins of San Francisco, Chanan Belzer and Yehudi Mercado discussed Jewish folklore in comics at JewCE,  (Photo/Forward-John Halpern)
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Talmudic debates, space bar mitzvahs and Frank Miller’s plans for Superman at Jewish comic con in New York

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar November 16, 2023November 16, 2023
An image from the Holocaust history virtual reality experience being developed by the Conference of Jewish Claims Against Germany. (Photo/JTA-Claims Conference)
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From virtual reality to digital synagogues, tech adds new dimension to Kristallnacht commemorations in Germany

by Toby Axelrod November 9, 2023November 9, 2023
Demonstrators in Los Angeles protest Germany’s persecution of Jews in the aftermath of Kristallnacht in 1938. (Photo/Library of Congress)
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U.S. Holocaust museum exhibit coming to Fresno reveals what the U.S. knew and when

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 3, 2023November 3, 2023

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