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Aitan Melamud (center), now a retired urologist in the Bay Area, with fellow soldiers during the 1973 Yom Kippur War (Photo/Courtesy Aitan Melamud)
Posted inFrom the Archives

In 1973, the Yom Kippur War put Israel’s survival at stake. Here’s how this newspaper covered it.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 28, 2022September 28, 2022
Illustration from a 1917 issue of this newspaper, showing Rosh Hashanah "Jewish New Year's Customs Observed in Ancient Times."
Posted inFrom the Archives

From Rosh Hashanah columns of yore, hopes for the future

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 21, 2022September 21, 2022
Women at Auschwitz, May 1944. (Photo/Forward-Yad Vashem Archives-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Did Nazis make these Jewish women at Auschwitz infertile?

by Hallie Lieberman and Forward September 14, 2022
An ad for chicken that says "Get more 'tov' during 'yom tov'"
Posted inFrom the Archives

‘Hazelnuttorten and brodtorten’ for the High Holidays, anyone?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 12, 2022
Four Stabucks cups, each with a name handwritten on it: Rivka, Ezra, Avi, and Talia
Posted inU.S.

A new study explains why Starbucks can’t spell your Jewish name

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA September 12, 2022September 12, 2022
Countess Maria von Maltzan, Germany, 1988 (Photo/Gay Block)
Posted inPhotography

Gay Block’s portraits of non-Jewish Holocaust rescuers on view at S.F. gallery

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene September 7, 2022September 12, 2022
In 1898, foie gras was cheap
Posted inFrom the Archives

Whatever happened to $4 per lb. for kosher brisket?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 2, 2022September 2, 2022
Israeli fans at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Sept. 5, 1972. (Photo/JTA-Klaus Rose-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

How the 1972 Munich Massacre unfolded, through the eyes of athletes in the Olympic village

by Jon Marks and JTA September 2, 2022September 2, 2022
Philosopher Jason Stanley (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Yale University)
Posted inNews

A philosopher went viral for tweeting about ‘polite dinners’ with Nazis. Here’s what he really thinks.

by Sarah Nachimson and Forward August 17, 2022
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai on the USS General M.C. Meigs, 1949 (Photo/Courtesy U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library)
Posted inFrom the Archives

75 years ago this week: San Francisco was ‘Port of Hope’ for Jewish refugees from Shanghai

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 17, 2022August 17, 2022

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