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Ohlone leader Corinna Gould at a protest of construction on top of a shellmound in Berkeley, April 9, 2016 (Photo/Flickr-Wendy Kenin CC BY-ND 2.0)
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The Shoah is my story. So is our genocide of Native Americans.

Rabbi Dev Noily by Rabbi Dev Noily April 11, 2018April 11, 2018
The Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai reading at Tmol Shilshom Cafe in 1994, "a cultural hub in Jerusalem" that Zella Lezak counts as one of her favorite places in Israel. (Photo/Wikimedia-Yair Medina CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Convincing my high school peers that Israel is more than black and white

Zella Lezak by Zella Lezak April 10, 2018April 11, 2018
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s  debut novel “One Night, Markovitch” (2012) is worth your time.
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11 stellar Israeli novels that cry out to be read

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman April 10, 2018August 20, 2018
Israel at 70 is a cranky, adolescent country, one that is still growing, stretching, lurching along.
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Israel is brilliant, troubled — and in dire need of a shared destiny

Maggid Jhos Singer by Maggid Jhos Singer April 9, 2018April 9, 2018
Survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp arrive in Haifa in 1945, 12 years before Lili Naveh would arrive there with her mother, also a Holocaust survivor.
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I was 3 when we left the sorrow of Poland to run free in Haifa

Lili Naveh by Lili Naveh April 8, 2018April 9, 2018
Young and old survivors in Dachau cheer approaching U.S. troops.
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Traveling Holocaust commemoration exhibits arrive in S.F.

by J. Staff April 8, 2018April 6, 2018
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Seven decades on, Israel is still a work in progress — as it should be

by J. Editorial Board April 6, 2018
From the 2007 film "Waltz With Bashir"
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10 modern Israeli films to watch on Israel’s 70th birthday

Lexi Leban by Lexi Leban April 6, 2018April 6, 2018
Ruth, the heroine of the biblical book that bears her name, was the first convert to Judaism. Poster for the 1960 film "The Story of Ruth," directed by Harry Koster and starring Peggy Wood in the title role
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Our Passover story is a chance to reaffirm that we are all Jews by choice

Rabbi Corey Helfand by Rabbi Corey Helfand April 6, 2018
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Seniors’ club seder asked Four Questions in nine languages

by J. Staff April 5, 2018April 6, 2018

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