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People gather in the streets of Tel Aviv after radio broadcasts announce the UN partition plan, Nov. 30, 1947 (File photo)
Posted inFrom the Archives

‘State of Israel Is Born! The Challenge We Face’

by J. Staff April 26, 2023April 25, 2023
Holocaust survivor Leon Rajninger at his home in San Francisco. (Photo/Liz Harris)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Read and watch testimony from 10 Bay Area Holocaust survivors

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 18, 2023April 18, 2023
A group of Jewish young men pose while on an excursion in the Macedonian woods in 1941. The man seated in the front row, far left, has been identified as Nissim Kassorla by Numbers To Names according to Daniel Patt. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Gabriel Albocher)
Posted inBay Area

Once just faces, these Holocaust victims now have names

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 13, 2023April 27, 2023
A charoset competition covered in our pages in 1978, with contestants (left to right) Augusta Levin, Kate Shannen, Sonia Mintz, Frieda Gross, Rachel Fishman, Celia Gold, Ruby Tobias and Bessie Goldberg. There's no word on who won! (Photo/J. Archives)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Decades ago, our Passover recipes boldly name-dropped brands

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 4, 2023April 4, 2023
low-res image of 1971 issue of Jewish Bulletin with headline "Israeli 'Turned On' by Drug Research"
Posted inFrom the Archives

Marijuana: In Israel they researched it, but blamed its use on Americans

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 14, 2023March 24, 2023
Thessaloniki's white tower (Photo/Wikimedia Commons-Annatsach)
Posted inFilm

80 years later, Thessaloniki’s documentary film festival to pay tribute to deported Jews

by Elise Morton and JTA March 1, 2023
Jews move along a crowded street in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Posted inWorld

Wikipedia tackles alleged conspiracy to distort Holocaust history

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA February 28, 2023March 6, 2023
The Leviathan Jewish Journal debuted in 1972. (Photo/Leviathan Jewish Journal Archive)
Posted inEducation

Started as a Jewish hippie journal, UC Santa Cruz’s Leviathan turns 50

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 28, 2023March 6, 2023
From our Jan. 6, 1899 issue
Posted inFrom the Archives

In the 1890s, Bay Area Jews said a cautious ‘yes’ to Christmas

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 22, 2022December 22, 2022
In a 1926 issue of this newspaper, Rabbi S. Felix Mendelsohn wrote about what he called “Jewish nationalism,” which we today would call a secular Jewish identity.
Posted inFrom the Archives

This week’s JCRC survey reminds us: We’ve been asking ‘Who is a Jew?’ for a long time

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 7, 2022December 7, 2022

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