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Wheatland Union High School District Superintendent Nicole Newman delivers a video message on Dec. 30, 2021, addressing a photo of students covered in swastikas that went viral on social media. (Screenshot)
Posted inNorthern California

Wheatland High takes ‘disciplinary action’ against students after swastika stunt

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 3, 2022January 4, 2022
Eli Wirtschafter with mother Diane (left) and father Josh (right) in "Another Seder on the Zoom." (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inBay Area

What you read this year: Our top 10 most popular stories of 2021

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 30, 2021January 5, 2022
Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland held its first indoor service in a year, March 14, 2021.
Posted inBay Area

Facing omicron spike, Bay Area synagogues weigh their options

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Emma Goss and Maya Mirsky December 30, 2021January 5, 2022
Man hiding his face
Posted inBay Area

Police arrest man after Aryan Nations flyer drops in Carmichael

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman December 29, 2021
Art projects are one way Yom Rishon School brings Jewish studies alive. (Photo/Sue Fishkoff)
Posted inEducation

In Palo Alto, a ‘first day’ of Jewish education — in Russian

by Sue Fishkoff December 29, 2021December 29, 2021
Memorial stolperstiene, or "stumbling blocks," are laid in front of a formerly Jewish home in Görlitz. (Photo/Courtesy Lauren Leiderman)
Posted inNews

Return to Görlitz: survivors’ descendants lay memorial stones in Germany

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 28, 2021December 29, 2021
Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld surveys the damage at the Chabad House in south San Jose, Dec. 2021. (Photo/Emma Goss)
Posted inBay Area

Fire destroys new Chabad synagogue in San Jose, spares Torahs

by Emma Goss December 23, 2021January 5, 2022
Reese Lichtenstein and her grandmother, taken shortly before Irene Wolff’s death in January 2020. Reese has her grandmother’s image tattooed on her forearm. (Photo/Petal and Stone-Nan Patriquin); Part of the porcelain set kept by the Moritz family in Germany.
Posted inNews

From Germany to America: A family’s legacy, preserved in porcelain

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 23, 2021February 1, 2022
Students thought to be from Wheatland High School seen covered in Nazi symbols (Photo/Courtesy ADL)
Posted inNorthern California

Sacramento-area students post photos of themselves covered in swastikas

by J. Staff December 23, 2021December 23, 2021
Civil rights attorney Zahra Billoo (Photo/JTA)
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Muslim civil rights leader says she is target of ‘prolonged Zionist onslaught’ as she goes on sabbatical

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 21, 2021December 21, 2021

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