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A Young Men's Hebrew Association baseball team in St. Louis, ca. 1930. (Photo/File-Courtesy American Jewish Historical Society)
Posted inFrom the Archives

‘A sport-loving people,’ Jews always felt at home in baseball

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 15, 2023August 15, 2023
Clockwise from top left: The Beastie Boys, Doja Cat and Rick Rubin, shown with Russell Simmons, are a few of the prominent Jewish figures from the first 50 years of hip-hop. (Photos/JTA-Getty Images; Design/JTA-Mollie Suss)
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From Rick Rubin to Doja Cat, Jews have helped shape the first 50 years of hip-hop

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 11, 2023August 16, 2023
Herbert Sussan, seen here in Nagasaki in 1946, later said in an oral history, “All of us were absolutely stunned, and nobody could believe it was one bomb.” (Photo/Courtesy Leslie Sussan)
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Her father documented the devastation at Nagasaki and Hiroshima — now she’s considered an honorary second-generation survivor

by Jon Kalish August 9, 2023
Sholem Aleichem at his writing desk in 1904.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Books we reviewed in the early 1900s had not one ‘beach read’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 4, 2023August 6, 2023
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival co-directors Deborah Kaufman and Janis Plotkin in 1991 on the balcony of the Castro Theatre. (Photo/File)
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Wilder, Abzug, Vishniac: How we covered S.F. Jewish Film Fest headliners over the years

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 14, 2023July 14, 2023
A still from 'The Catskills' shows a photograph of Grossinger's dance staff. (Photo/Jackie Horner)
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‘The Catskills’ reveals lost world more marvelous than Mrs. Maisel ever knew

by Dan Pine July 7, 2023July 21, 2023
a woman stands before a table of items, including metal cups and candle holders, examining them closely
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A flea market menorah: $4,000. Family memories: priceless.

by Naomi Friedland July 3, 2023July 5, 2023
Members of the recently formed Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in June 1979 during the “San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.” (Joe Altman-California Historical Society)
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In the ’70s and ’80s, our letter-writers went to battle over gay rights

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 20, 2023June 21, 2023
Hannah Gubbay (1885–1968) was the daughter of E. D. Ezra and Mozelle Sassoon, members of one of the richest Jewish families in Europe. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy private collection, by Barney Hindle)
Posted inOpinion

The Sassoons, the famed Jewish Baghdad dynasty, are having a moment. Here’s why that matters.

Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah by Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah June 2, 2023
a graphic of the Wikipedia article "The Holocaust in Poland" with a magnifying glass superimposed on it
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Wikipedia disciplines editors in Holocaust distortion dispute but sidesteps debate over Polish complicity

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev May 23, 2023

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