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Miss Ray Frank in Stockton's Daily Record newspaper in 1897. (CDNC)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Was Ray Frank of Oakland the first woman rabbi?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 26, 2025December 26, 2025
Yoav Potash films Aaron Tartakovsky outside Gniewoszów City Hall in June 2017 for the film "Among Neighbors." (Sue Barnett/J. Staff)
Posted inFilm

Polish leaders attack Berkeley filmmaker’s Holocaust doc, open inquiry

by Sue Fishkoff November 26, 2025December 9, 2025
Shelley Nussenblatt Kessler
Posted inHistory

In Galveston, descendants of a forgotten Jewish migration tell their story

by Dan Fellner November 26, 2025November 26, 2025
Rob Kutner's book "The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting" is published by Wicked Sons. (Courtesy)
Posted inOn Stage

Comedy writer Rob Kutner romps through 5,000 years of Jewish history

by Dan Pine November 18, 2025November 18, 2025
Immigrants on a ferry boat near Ellis Island. (Department of the Treasury, Public Health Service)
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New state law says Israelis aren’t white. Let the debates begin.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 12, 2025November 12, 2025
The Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.
Posted inNews

Yad Vashem says it has identified 5 million Holocaust victims

by Grace Gilson November 3, 2025November 3, 2025
Future building for the JFCS Holocaust Center.
Posted inLocal Voice

Teach Jewish history in California classrooms, and you change the world

Anita Friedman (Courtesy  JFCS) by Anita Friedman October 29, 2025October 29, 2025
Clifford's Tower in York
Posted inAct Two

A walking tour of York highlights England’s messy history with Jews

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent October 28, 2025October 29, 2025
Left: The original Temple Emanu-El, which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. Right: Portrait of Julie Rosewald from "A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches," 1893
Posted inFrom the Archives

Meet Madam Julie Rosewald, the world’s first woman cantor

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky October 21, 2025October 21, 2025
Adults sitting in circle listen to speaker
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Russian speakers in Palo Alto are getting the tools to become Jewish leaders

by Sue Fishkoff October 20, 2025October 21, 2025

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