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“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
Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger's April 1, 1898 column
Posted inFrom the Archives

In 1898, this newspaper declared the haggadah ‘literary nonsense’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 14, 2022
Tsvi Reiter, Yvonne Reiter and Hei Le participate in Yvonne’s bat mitzvah ceremony, which was performed over Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo/The Conversation-Lindsey Wasson-Getty Images News via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

The first bat mitzvah was 100 years ago, and has been opening doors for Jewish women ever since

Lisa Fishbayn Joffelogo of The Conversation by Lisa Fishbayn Joffe and The Conversation March 15, 2022March 15, 2022

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