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A panel from Bernard Zakheim's expansive WPA murals on medical history in UCSF's Toland Hall auditorium; Zakheim working on the mural in 1937. (Photos/UCSF Archives and Special Collections)
Posted inArt

New hope for Jewish muralist’s historic work at UCSF

Laura Pall by Laura Paull August 12, 2020October 21, 2020
black and white painting of a woman in period clothing
Posted inCulture

How did German Jews cope with a 17th-century plague? This woman’s 350-year-old memoir offers a glimpse.

by Penny Schwartz and JTA July 27, 2020July 27, 2020
Bust of older white man displayed in museum entryway
Posted inNews

S.F. Asian Art Museum to remove bust of founding donor with antisemitic views

by Gabriel Greschler July 23, 2020July 31, 2020
illustration of the front of a beige building with an entrance on the right
Posted inNews

Renovation of historic S.F. synagogue slowed but not halted

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky July 15, 2020July 16, 2020
A Judensau sculpture on display on the outer wall of the town church of St. Marien in Wittenberg, Germany, Feb. 4, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Hendrik Schmidt-Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

In Germany, several churches have anti-Semitic sculptures from the Middle Ages. Can one man get them taken down?

by Toby Axelrod and JTA June 24, 2020June 24, 2020
Herbert Heller in 2019. (Photo/Vivian Cohen)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Quick thinking saved this North Bay man’s life during Holocaust

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 12, 2020June 15, 2020
(Graphic/JTA-Emily Burack)
Posted inOpinion

I helped coin the term ‘Jews of color.’ It’s time for a history lesson.

by Shahanna McKinney-Baldon June 4, 2020
Emily L. Quint Freeman (Photo/Carlos Zarate)
Posted inBooks

‘Failure to Appear’: At 73, this Vietnam-era anti-war fugitive is telling her story of 20 years on the run

by Liz Harris June 2, 2020July 8, 2020
The Haifa Municipal Band playing in the 1933 Bikurim parade. (Photo/ GPO via Wikipedia)
Posted inShavuot

When Haifa was party central at Shavuot

Rachel NeimanISRAEL21c logo by Rachel Neiman and ISRAEL21c May 27, 2020
Ben Cole as President Charles Linbergh (left) and John Turturro as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf in "The Plot Against America." (HBO)
Posted inHistory

FDR had a Jewish strategy much like the one in ‘Plot Against America’

Rafael Medoff by Rafael Medoff May 26, 2020May 26, 2020

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