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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
the cover says "EMANU-EL" in large letters and features an old photo of a man with a beard
Posted inFrom the Archives

‘All hail!’ 127 years ago today, this newspaper’s first issue

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 22, 2022November 22, 2022
black and white photo of an angry man speaking into a microphone
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How did Nazis use propaganda to justify their horrors? Stanford psychologist’s analysis explains

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 17, 2022November 22, 2022
A print announcement of our first website
Posted inFrom the Archives

In the late ’80s, we were riding the ‘information superhighway’

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 10, 2022November 10, 2022
From a 1946 issue of the Jewish Bulletin
Posted inFrom the Archives

70 years ago this week, the world celebrated a man who ended a previous pandemic

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 4, 2022
The Olympic torch is carried into the stadium during the opening ceremonies of the XI Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany, on August 1, 1936. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
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The Nazi history of Adidas, the sportswear giant that took weeks to drop Kanye West over antisemitism

by Andrew Lapin and JTA October 26, 2022
Portrait of Florence Prag Kahn in the collection of the Library of Congress
Posted inFrom the Archives

How this San Franciscan became the first Jewish woman in Congress

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 24, 2022October 27, 2022
Julius Rosenwald with students from a Rosenwald School. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library)
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This would be the only national park telling the story of an American Jew

by Mark I. Pinsky and Forward October 20, 2022October 20, 2022
Conklin Bros. carpet dealers delivering by mule, as seen in a 1902 issue of the Emanu-El (this publication's original name).
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Vintage newspaper ads: 120 years ago, your carpets came by mule

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 19, 2022

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