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Rabbi Dev Noily (center) with members of Jews on Ohlone Land in front of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco on Feb. 12. (David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish activists for indigenous rights take issue with CJM’s Levi Strauss exhibit 

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 18, 2020February 19, 2020
Holocaust survivor Leon Rajninger at his home in San Francisco. (Photo/Liz Harris)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

S.F. man, 88, recalls a ‘nightmare’ at every turn

by Liz Harris February 13, 2020February 21, 2020
Levi Strauss bib overalls, ca. 1900 — currently on display at Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (Levi Strauss & Co. Archives)
Posted inCulture

Colorful exhibit shows how Levi’s jeans became an American icon

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller February 7, 2020February 10, 2020
Lori, a Holocaust survivor from the JFCS Holocaust Center speakers' bureau, addresses students in March 2019. (Photo/Trish Tunney)
Posted inHolidays

Survivors in shrinking community speak their truths

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 27, 2020January 27, 2020
Joe Pell (Liz Harris)
Posted inUncategorized

Joseph Pell, 95, reflects on a life of struggle and triumph

by Liz Harris January 24, 2020November 2, 2021
Julius Silber (Courtesy Katie Figulla)
Posted inFirst Person

The spy who fell off my family tree — and nearly got away

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent January 21, 2020January 27, 2020
Selma van de Perre signs her book at the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, Jan. 9, 2020. (JTA/Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day, World, History, Holidays, News

At 97, a Dutch resistance hero wants to give fellow Jewish fighters overdue recognition

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA January 21, 2020January 21, 2020
Journalists visiting a renovated barrack at Auschwitz, Dec. 1, 2016 (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

As Holocaust memories fade, our world becomes more perilous

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn January 17, 2020January 17, 2020
Photos from Amnon Weinstein's violin restoration workshop in Tel Aviv will be on display in the Bay Area as part of "Violins of Hope." (Courtesy Amnon Weinstein)
Posted inCulture

Exhibit of Holocaust violins tells story of music as protest

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 9, 2020January 9, 2020
Photos of violins like this one, made in Germany around 1870, will be featured in one of dozens of Violins of Hope events, January through March around the Bay Area. (Amnon Weinstein)
Posted inCulture

‘Violins of Hope’ escaped the Holocaust and are coming to Bay Area for events of music and memory

by Andrew Muchin January 8, 2020January 9, 2020

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