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Chinese diplomat Feng Shan Ho, seen here in China in 1947, is one of many foreign diplomats who helped Jews escape the Holocaust.
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

To the diplomats who risked their lives to save Jews, we say thank you

Shlomi Kofman by Shlomi Kofman January 22, 2021
Adolf Eichmann at his 1961 trial for war crimes. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Posted inLocal Voice

With our nation in peril, fascism demands a Jewish response

Terry Lynn Karl by Terry Lynn Karl January 18, 2021January 18, 2021
From the cover of “The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate” by Martin Puchner.
Posted inOff the Shelf

Two new books burrow into Yiddish and the ‘language of thieves’

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 15, 2021January 15, 2021
Munich during the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, in which Hitler and the early Nazi party attempted to overthrow the Weimar government. (Photo/Wikimedia-Bundesarchive CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inNews

After Capitol riot, lessons from Weimar Germany 

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 13, 2021February 1, 2021
Thousands marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest antisemitism on January 5, 2020.
Posted inHistory

10 heartwarming Jewish stories from 2020

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA December 28, 2020June 4, 2021
Congregation Beth Israel's second building, on Geary Boulevard, was completed in 1908. It was almost completed in 1906, but was destroyed by the earthquake and had to be rebuilt. In 1969, Beth Israel merged with Temple Judea to form Congregation Beth Israel Judea. Decades later, BIJ is merging with yet another synagogue, Congregation B'nai Emunah. (Photo/Courtesy Congregation Beth Israel Judea)
Posted inNews

Mazel tov — it’s a merger! Two historic San Francisco synagogues become one

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 16, 2020December 16, 2020
The "Little Shul," located behind the main building of Temple Beth Sholom in San Leandro, seen here ca. 1940, is one of many Jewish treasures travelers can visit on a trip to Gold Country. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inHistory

A road trip through Jewish Gold Country

by Gabriel Greschler November 25, 2020December 8, 2020
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left) with President Bill Clinton and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat during the signing of the Oslo I Accord in 1993. (Photo/Israel Defense Forces)
Posted inHistory

25 years later: Rabin’s murder marked Israel’s loss of innocence

by Sue Fishkoff November 2, 2020
A gathering of Jewish fraternity and sorority members in Minneapolis in 1949. (Photo/Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest)
Posted inHistory

What the history of Greek life reveals about Jewish whiteness and the price of assimilation

by Jess Schwalb and Hey Alma November 2, 2020November 2, 2020
Andrew Hoffman as a child with his father, Abbie Hoffman, stepmother Anita Kushner and younger sister Amy (out of frame). (Photo/Courtesy Hoffman)
Posted inCulture

Abbie Hoffman’s Bay Area son, activists recall real ‘Chicago 7’ trial

Frances Dinkelspiel by Frances Dinkelspiel October 30, 2020November 11, 2020

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