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Smores Bars (Photo/Micah Siva)
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Make S’mores Bars for a less messy Lag Ba’Omer

Micah Siva by Micah Siva May 4, 2023June 8, 2023
A Tel Aviv protest at the start of Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel's Independence Day, featured a sea of flags, April 25, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Ben Sales)
Posted inNews

On Israel’s 75th Independence Day, its flag has taken on new meaning as a protest symbol

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 26, 2023April 26, 2023
Ofra Haza died in 2000, but AI technology has allowed for her voice and likeness to be recreated and used in a new song. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inMusic

Two iconic Israeli singers have been resurrected via AI for a duet. Not everyone is happy.

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA April 20, 2023April 20, 2023
Yom HaAtzmaut celebration at Congregation Emanu El in San Francisco, May 1, 2017. (File photo)
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Even in crisis, Israel at 75 deserves celebration, local planners say

by Dan Pine April 20, 2023
Survivor David Wisnia and his pianist grandson Avi in a scene from “How Saba Kept Singing,” a documentary airing on PBS on April 18. (Photo/JTA-Retro Report)
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Can a Holocaust documentary have a happy ending? Should it?

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA April 17, 2023
Two pictures. On the left, a color photo of an ornate silver cup. On the right, a vintage photo of a woman smiling outside, sitting on a bench.
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Nazi-looted silver cup comes home to Bay Area descendant after 80 years

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz April 17, 2023April 18, 2023
Children sing at a 2014 Yom HaAtzmaut event in Palo Alto. (Photo/Saul Bromberger)
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Where to celebrate Israel at 75 around the Bay Area

by J. Staff April 14, 2023April 26, 2023
Guests at a seder in Kyiv, Ukraine, including many families from heavily damaged Kharkiv, sit around the seder table on the first night of Passover, April 5, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Marcel Gascon Barbera)
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Embodying a story of trauma and liberation, Ukrainian Jews celebrate Passover amid a new normal

by Marcel Gascón Barberá and JTA April 5, 2023April 5, 2023
(From left) musician Jonathan Bayer, San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar, San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and San Francisco Mayor London Breed at the JCRC Freedom Seder in San Francisco, April 3, 2023. (Photo/Anastasiia Sapon-JCRC)
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Mayors, supervisors and a drag queen take center stage at JCRC Freedom Seder

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene April 5, 2023April 11, 2023
A charoset competition covered in our pages in 1978, with contestants (left to right) Augusta Levin, Kate Shannen, Sonia Mintz, Frieda Gross, Rachel Fishman, Celia Gold, Ruby Tobias and Bessie Goldberg. There's no word on who won! (Photo/J. Archives)
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Decades ago, our Passover recipes boldly name-dropped brands

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 4, 2023April 4, 2023

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