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Helga Newman at age 9 in Austria, April 1939
Posted inCommunity

80 years later, Palo Alto woman’s story of rescue by Kindertransport

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 25, 2019April 29, 2019
Jacob Dinezon’s dramatic Yiddish romance novel “The Dark Young Man” was a surprise success in 1877. (Photo/JTA-Jewish Storyteller Press)
Posted inBooks

Now in English: This Yiddish romance novel was the surprise hit of 1877

by Penny Schwartz and JTA April 8, 2019
Happy 100th birthday to Bill Krasow!
Posted inLifecycles

100th birthday for Jewish S.F. man born as a refugee in China

by J. Readers April 3, 2019April 16, 2019
Torah ark key inscribed in Hebrew "gift to the great synagogue," Northern Italy, 1724-1725
Posted inCulture

With ‘Memory Objects,’ immigrants carried their own history

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller February 20, 2019February 22, 2019
a two-story stone building with sloping roof and red barn door amid trees and overgrowth
Posted inJewish Life

End of line for historic Sonoma winery building with Jewish past?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 19, 2019November 5, 2019
Théophile Joseph
Posted inHistory

Berkeley’s Théo Joseph, French Resistance fighter, dies at 98

Donna Rosenthal by Donna Rosenthal January 31, 2019January 31, 2019
Newsboys for the Forward wait for their copies in the early morning hours, March 1913. (Photo/Wikimedia-Lewis Hine)
Posted inOpinion

The Forward’s woes deal the Jewish world a blow to the kishkes

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 21, 2019
a small building with a star of david on top, black and white photo
Posted inNews

Richmond history museum tells the story of local Jews

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat January 11, 2019January 16, 2019
Second-generation Holocaust survivor Robert Leonard Rope
Posted inHistory

Dancing at an event for Holocaust survivors? I’m glad I was there

Robert Leonard Rope by Robert Leonard Rope December 27, 2018
60 people gathered together for a group shot in the sunlight
Posted inThanksgiving

Giving thanks for escape from Egypt — 50 years later

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 4, 2018December 11, 2018

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