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Shereen Bhalla, who previously worked at the Hindu American Foundation, is the Anti-Defamation League's new director of education for Northern California, Utah and Hawaii.
Posted inNews

ADL’s new hire brings her Hindu perspective to org’s civil rights mission

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 16, 2023January 4, 2024
(From left) Kaitlin Brennan, Gabby Powell, Portia Kadlecek and Hannah Coleman celebrate their belated b'nai mitzvahs at Emanu-El. (Photo/Courtesy Lori Coleman)
Posted inLifecycles

At Emanu-El, pandemic b’nai mitzvah teens finally get to party like it’s 2019

by Dan Pine May 15, 2023May 16, 2023
Posted inObituaries

Don Chaiken, dedicated East Bay philanthropist, dies at 86

by Dan Pine May 15, 2023May 15, 2023
Attendees head off to their lobby meetings during the JPAC Capitol Summit in Sacramento, May 10, 2023. (Photo/Courtesy JPAC)
Posted inCalifornia

More than 300 Jews lobby state legislators on top concerns at annual JPAC summit

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 12, 2023May 12, 2023
Blowing the shofar for religious school students at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. (Photo/Facebook-Congregation Emanu-El)
Posted inEducation

How a national drop in religious school attendance is affecting Bay Area Jews

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 11, 2023May 12, 2023
Oren Segal, vice president of the ADL Center on Extremism, speaks at a press conference outside the Capitol in Sacramento about a new ADL report on hate in California, May 9, 2023. (Photo/Courtesy ADL)
Posted inCalifornia

ADL report: Extremism rising alongside antisemitism in California

by Ryan Torok May 10, 2023
Environmentalist and former Member of Knesset Alon Tal at a May 7 rally in Sunnyvale against Israel's proposed judicial reform organized by the Israeli expat group UnXeptable. (Photo/Galit Lipsitz Goldenthal)
Posted inNews

Alon Tal, former MK and Israeli environmentalism pioneer, has strong words for Israel today

by Dan Pine May 10, 2023May 10, 2023
The Sather Gate on the UC Berkeley campus. (Photo/Tristan Harward via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBay Area

UC Berkeley hit with public records suit from pro-Israel group

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 9, 2023May 9, 2023
Governor Gavin Newsom talks with Holocaust survivor Martha Sternbach at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles in 2023. (Courtesy Newsom's office)
Posted inCalifornia

Gov. Newsom makes his first proclamation of Jewish heritage month, touts antisemitism measures

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 8, 2023May 8, 2023
a middle aged black man in a suit speaks at a podium
Posted inEducation

JIMENA calls to halt school grants until antisemitism education is included in plans

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 8, 2023May 9, 2023

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