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“Na la’amod" means “please stand” in Hebrew, and is a non-gendered way to announce a person about to receive Torah honors. (Design/JTA-Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inReligion

Non-gendered language for calling Jews to the Torah gets Conservative movement approval

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 8, 2022June 8, 2022
The trip, which included two participants who were raised in the Bahá’í religion, included a visit to the Bahá’í Gardens in Haifa. (Photo/Courtesy JCRC)
Posted inNews

JCRC trip gives Berkeley mayor and other Bay Area officials a 360 look at Israel

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene June 7, 2022June 8, 2022
A JewBelong billboard in the East Bay
Posted inBay Area

Who is paying for these ‘JewBelong’ bacon billboards in the East Bay?

by Emma Goss June 6, 2022June 6, 2022
Rabbi Menachem Creditor (center) gathers with other faith leaders on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to protest gun violence.
(Photo/Courtesy Rabbi Creditor)
Posted inBay Area

Rabbis condemn gun violence as local post-Uvalde protests are planned

by Emma Goss June 6, 2022June 6, 2022
A student looks at an unrolled Torah at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School. (Photo/file)
Posted inEducation

‘It was all my kids wanted to talk about’: How Bay Area Jewish schools handled Uvalde tragedy

by Dan Pine June 3, 2022June 7, 2022
Gabe Kapler kneels during the playing of the National Anthem prior to a game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, July 31, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Thearon W. Henderson-Getty Images)
Posted inSports

Gabe Kapler is following in the footsteps of other Jewish activist athletes, from Hank Greenberg to Aly Raisman

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis and JTA June 3, 2022
Rabbi Eric Wiess, CEO of the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center, speaking at a BAHJC event in 2015. (Photo/Courtesy Weiss)
Posted inBay Area

Bay Area Jewish Healing Center to shut down after 31 years

by Dan Pine June 2, 2022April 11, 2025
Participants at Camp Nai Nai Nai West share a light moment together at Camp Newman in Santa Rosa, May 2022. (Photo/JTA-Yoav Magid)
Posted inSPONSORED CONTENT

‘It’s my happy place’: Jewish camp experience for adults brings out the child in everyone

by Caroline Kessler and JTA June 2, 2022June 2, 2022
Eric Salitsky at the Cadet Interfaith Center on the campus of West Point, which was one of the stops on his 2019 tour of multifaith spaces in North America and Europe. (Photo/Tamara Cohen)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish architect Eric Salitsky’s memorial gifts benefit Oakland ‘Designing Justice’ firm

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 2, 2022May 14, 2024
View of Windsor in Sonoma County.
(Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBay Area

Antisemitic flyers in baggies dropped in Sonoma County town

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene June 2, 2022June 2, 2022

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