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Israeli tanks cross the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War (Photo/Wikimedia-Israel Defense Forces)
Posted inIsrael at 70

An eyewitness to Yom Kippur War, Ethiopian aliyah, Soviet Jewry and more

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn April 19, 2018
Waldos Mark Gravitch (right front), Larry Schwartz (middle) and Dave Reddix at Dominican College in San Rafael, getting high and playing Frisbee, circa 1972-73.
Posted inHolidays

Meet the Waldos: the true story of the Marin stoners who coined ‘420’

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn April 19, 2018April 19, 2018
Posted inIsrael at 70

What we wrote about S.F.’s Israel celebration in 1948

by J. Staff April 18, 2018
Natan Sharansky speaking in front of the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, Feb. 6, 1987 (Photo/Tom Wachs)
Posted inIsrael at 70

I joined the Zionist revolution in Russia

john rothmann by John Rothmann April 17, 2018April 16, 2018
CNN anchor Jake Tapper is the brother of Swig Program director Aaron Hahn Tapper, and will speak at the program's 40th anniversary celebration April 22.
Posted inEducation

40 years of first Jewish studies program at a Jesuit university

by Rob Gloster April 16, 2018April 17, 2018
The 1960 film “Exodus,” starring Paul Newman (center) as Ari Ben Canaan, conveyed American Jews’ pride in the Jewish state.
Posted inIsrael at 70

From distancing to embracing: How 1948 changed U.S. Jews

Ben Sales by Ben Sales April 11, 2018
Stanford University students in Jerusalem on a Birthright Israel trip in 2017.
Posted inIsrael at 70

The lessons of Jewish history, Steve Jobs and the Tenth Roman Legion

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg April 6, 2018April 6, 2018
Lilianne Kuhn (right) in Conjux, France, ca. 1942
Posted inHistory

Now 79, she’s honoring the French family that saved her in WWII

by Rob Gloster April 5, 2018April 5, 2018
An after-work Hebrew lesson for new emigres in Dimona, 1955 (Photo/Moshe Pridan-National Photo Collection)
Posted inIsrael at 70

‘Yiddish not spoken here’ — but my dad had a different idea

Vavi Toran by Vavi Toran April 5, 2018April 6, 2018
On the cover of our print edition this week: "Hipster Herzl," part of Israeli artist Amit Shimoni's Hipstory series, reimagines the legendary Zionist leader and his very hipster beard.
Posted inLetter to Readers

On the cover: 70 years of Herzl’s dream

by Sue Fishkoff April 5, 2018April 5, 2018

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