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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
From the cover of "The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty" by Richard Schwartz
Posted inBooks

Turn-of-the-century actor who changed the way people saw Jews

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 29, 2019May 3, 2019
From the cover of "In Broad Daylight" by Patrick Desbois
Posted inYom HaShoah

Q&A: The Catholic priest who found mass graves of 1.5 million Jews

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky April 29, 2019April 30, 2019

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