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Selma van de Perre signs her book at the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, Jan. 9, 2020. (JTA/Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day, World, History, Holidays, News

At 97, a Dutch resistance hero wants to give fellow Jewish fighters overdue recognition

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA January 21, 2020January 21, 2020
Journalists visiting a renovated barrack at Auschwitz, Dec. 1, 2016 (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

As Holocaust memories fade, our world becomes more perilous

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn January 17, 2020January 17, 2020
One of the refurbished Holocaust violins that has come to the Bay Area as part of the Violins of Hope event series. (Weinstein Collection)
Posted inHolidays

Violins of Hope concert set at Emanu-El for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 15, 2020January 17, 2020
a lit menorah in a window
Posted inTorah

How will we bring a little extra light into the world this Hanukkah?

Rabbi Stacy Friedman by Rabbi Stacy Friedman December 26, 2019December 24, 2019
Jessica Meir's Hanukkah socks, seen far above earth. (JTA/Jessica Meir/Twitter)
Posted inHanukkah

Astronaut Jessica Meir tweets Hanukkah message from space

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA December 23, 2019
One of artist Elaine Corn's ceramic menorahs.
Posted inHanukkah

After food writing career, artist finds appetite for ceramics

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 20, 2019
Susan Saal's house on the Hanukkah Highway in Palo Alto.
Posted inJewish Life

Christmas Tree Lane? How about Hanukkah Highway?

by Gabriel Greschler December 20, 2019December 20, 2019
Leslie Berlin’s lawn decorations show children from diverse backgrounds celebrating peace and joy. (Rick Dodd)
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: A Jewish Silicon Valley historian who lights up at Christmas

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 19, 2019December 19, 2019
Rabbi Yosef Langer of Chabad of S.F. lights the Bill Graham menorah in Union Square in 2014. (Photo/Natalie Schrik)
Posted inNews

Where to enjoy public menorah lightings in the Bay Area

by J. Staff December 18, 2019December 18, 2019
From the cover of "Someday We Will Fly" by Rachel DeWoskin.
Posted inOff the Shelf

Hanukkah gift guide to graphic novels, picture books and young adult novels

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman December 18, 2019

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