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Pro-affirmative action protesters carry signs about Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, a Supreme Court case regarding affirmative action at UC Davis, as they march before the federal court house in Foley Square in New York City on June 30, 1978. (Photo/AP)
Posted inNews

Jewish orgs back Prop. 16 despite complicated history with affirmative action

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 26, 2020October 30, 2020
black and white: a thin older man in white papal robes gazes out a window
Posted inFilm

Documentary questions WWII-era pope’s ‘Holy Silence’

by Dan Pine October 21, 2020
Arthur Blaustein is the author of "Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport."
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: He’s served presidents, and now he’s serving democracy

by Liz Harris October 20, 2020March 12, 2021
Rachel Brahinsky is co-author of "A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area."
Posted inCulture

Going ‘beneath the sidewalk’ to reveal the Bay Area’s untold history

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 14, 2020October 15, 2020
Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in the 1963 film on the Egyptian queen. (Photo/JTA-Universal History Archive-Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Posted inFilm

Decades before Gal Gadot, Elizabeth Taylor fell into controversy playing Cleopatra as a Jewish actress

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA October 13, 2020
Tiburon novelist Leslie K. Barry is the author of "Newark Minutemen."
Posted inBooks

North Bay writer pens tale of Jewish mobsters fighting Nazis… in New Jersey

by Dan Pine October 7, 2020October 14, 2020
Jewish men gather in a communal sukkah in a displaced person's camp in Amberg, Germany, October 1947.
 (Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum-Courtesy of Abraham Malach)
Posted inHolidays

75 years ago, my parents and other Holocaust survivors celebrated Sukkot on their own terms

Menachem Z. Rosensaft by Menachem Z. Rosensaft and JTA October 1, 2020October 1, 2020
Mordechai and Sheindle Sova were shot in 1941 on a central street of Kyiv, Ukraine and buried in a ditch after they ignored the order to gather to be murdered at Babyn Yar. (Photo/Courtesy Igor Kulakov and Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center)
Posted inWorld

Nearly 80 years after the Babyn Yar massacre, Ukrainian researchers lift victims out of anonymity

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 25, 2020September 25, 2020
Mirjam Wenzel is the director of the new Jewish Museum of Frankfurt, Aug. 25, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inWorld

Frankfurt Jewish museum’s $58 million extension reclaims Anne Frank’s forgotten roots in the city

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 26, 2020August 26, 2020
Bill Brostoff at the Jewish cemetery in Trzcianne, Poland.
Posted inHistory

One Berkeley man’s quest to save Poland’s Jewish cemeteries

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 26, 2020August 26, 2020

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