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Rolf Eden at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 24, 2017 (Photo/JTA-Matthias Nareyek-Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Rolf Eden, German playboy and nightclub impresario who fought in Israel’s War of Independence, dies at 92

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 17, 2022August 17, 2022
A group of Jewish Home residents seen in our Feb. 20, 1959 issue
Posted inFrom the Archives

From Jewish Home to Campus for Jewish Living, over a century of caring for Jewish seniors

by Angela Smalley August 15, 2022August 12, 2022
Patients lay in beds in the “Syndrome K” unit at Fatebenefratelli Hospital. (Photo/JTA-“Syndrome K”-Freestyle Digital Media)
Posted inCulture

To save Jews and keep the Nazis away, these doctors invented a fake infectious disease

by Stephen Silver and JTA August 12, 2022August 12, 2022
“The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land,” by Graciela Mochkofsky, traces the saga of a group of Peruvian Jews.
Posted inBooks

An unlikely mass conversion in Peru gets a closer look in new book about ‘Inca Jews’

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA August 11, 2022August 12, 2022
Eugenio Pacelli’s coronation as Pope Pius XII on March 12, 1939.
Posted inBooks

‘The Pope at War’: A new book explains Pius XII’s silence during the Shoah — but does not excuse it

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward August 2, 2022August 2, 2022
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival co-directors Deborah Kaufman and Janis Plotkin in 1991 on the balcony of the Castro Theatre. (Photo/File)
Posted inColumns

Tracing the growth of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival from 1980 to 2022

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 21, 2022July 21, 2022
Judy Gumbo is the author of “Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI.” (Photo/Gary Goldberg)
Posted inBooks

‘Yippie Girl’: In memoir, Judy Gumbo writes about 1960s Jewish activists, the Chicago 7 and defeating the FBI

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 19, 2022July 20, 2022
Judith Berlowitz is the author of "Home So Far Away," a novel inspired by an ancestor who served as a battlefield nurse in the Spanish Civil War.
Posted inBooks

‘Home So Far Away’: Retired Mills College professor Judith Berlowitz’s novel honors battlefield nurse ancestor

by Dan Pine July 14, 2022July 20, 2022
A 1949 advertisement for a JCC summer camp
Posted inFrom the Archives

A century ago, Jewish summer camps promised ‘mental and moral strength’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 12, 2022
A 1935 quiz about the Maccabiah in our publication
Posted inFrom the Archives

In our paper’s early decades, sports were a measure of ‘Jewish manhood’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 6, 2022

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