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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
“You can hear a pin drop when I tell my story,” says Sy Karfiol.
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

‘My childhood ended’: Sacramento Holocaust survivor Sy Karfiol recounts harrowing tale for spellbound audiences

by Dan Pine June 30, 2022June 30, 2022
Documents on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII are seen at the Vatican Secret Archives in Vatican City, Feb. 27, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Franco Origlia-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

The Vatican will release WWII-era ‘Jewish files’ online, including unanswered pleas to the pope

by Andrew Lapin and JTA June 27, 2022June 28, 2022
A wall at ANU—Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv honors Jewish literary greats. (Photo/JTA-Andrew Silow-Carroll)
Posted inCulture

What is a Jew? Israel’s renovated Diaspora museum attempts a three-story answer.

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA May 31, 2022
two pics: first, a headshot of Imhoff, a smiling white woman; second, the cover of the book
Posted inBooks

New book: A ‘Queer, Disabled’ early Zionist illustrates ‘roads not taken’

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA May 24, 2022
From a 1997 issue of the Jewish Bulletin, this publication's previous name.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Bay Area delis and Jewish markets of yore — gone but not forgotten

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 23, 2022May 24, 2022
Heather Klein in front of the display about her grandmother, Rose Klein, at the Angel Island Immigration Museum. (Photo/Courtesy Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation)
Posted inNews

Jewish immigrant story part of new museum on Angel Island, ‘Ellis Island of the West’

Larry Sokoloff by Larry Sokoloff May 18, 2022May 19, 2022
This ad appeared in the Jewish Bulletin (this publication's previous name) in 1976.
Posted inFrom the Archives

What rabbis said about abortion in our paper in 1975

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 10, 2022
Part of the Passover Papyrus, written in Aramaic. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin)
Posted inOpinion

‘No beer on Passover, OK?’ —Jerusalem to Jewish soldiers in Egypt, 419 BCE

by Dr. Henry Abramson and Forward April 20, 2022April 21, 2022

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