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History

Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon during the NASA Apollo 11 mission. Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon, after Neil Armstrong. (Photo/JTA-Hulton Archive-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

The kid in me wants another national moon shot, if not another shot at the moon

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 18, 2019
Officers taking a group of Central American asylum seekers into custody near McAllen, Texas, June 12, 2018. (Photo/JTA-John Moore-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

What will we tell the descendants of children detained by our government?

Donald C. Cutler by Donald C. Cutler July 2, 2019July 2, 2019
Immigrants apprehended by Border Patrol seen at the Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, June 17, 2018. (Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
Posted inLocal Voice

A historian’s perspective: Concentration camps in America?

David Biale by David Biale July 1, 2019July 1, 2019
Rabbi Andy Kastner, interim executive director of the East Bay Federation, speaks at the 100th anniversary celebration of the federation, June 19, 2019. (Photo/Courtesy East Bay Federation)
Posted inNews

After 100 years, a warm, haimish goodbye to the East Bay Federation

by Sue Fishkoff June 24, 2019June 24, 2019
Anne Brodofsky in Shanghai in the 1920s
Posted inHistory

Treasured letters recall Berkeley 99-year-old’s adventurous aunt

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 12, 2019
(From left) Andrea Trippen, Marlene Straus and Jacob Trippen in front of the Jewish preschool, Jewish senior housing and JCC in Cologne, Germany
Posted inUncategorized

Reunited at last — meeting the German family that saved mine

Rabbi Andrew Straus by Rabbi Andrew Straus June 10, 2019June 10, 2019
The S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund is making changes to its board.
Posted inHistory

What is a Jewish federation, anyway?

by J. Staff June 5, 2019
From the cover of "Prince of the Press" by Joshua Teplitsky
Posted inBooks

Books on books: uncovering the role of libraries in Jewish history

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 29, 2019May 29, 2019
Jason Harris at his neighborhood Peet's, working on his podcast "Jew Oughta Know" (Photo/David Mamaril Horowitz)
Posted inHistory

Historian’s podcast distills what ‘Jew Oughta Know’

by David Mamaril Horowitz May 17, 2019
a man with a short beard looks despondent, while an arm bearing a swastika armband passes in front of him
Posted inTheater

New play, premiering in S.F., tells the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

by Patricia Corrigan May 1, 2019May 1, 2019

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