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A Mother's Day celebration for Afghan families hosted by JFCS East Bay in 2011. (Courtesy JFCS East Bay)
Posted inBay Area

‘We’re picking up people every day’: Jewish orgs scramble to assist Afghan refugees arriving in Bay Area

by Gabriel Greschler August 20, 2021
(Illustration/JTA-Avishek Das-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Anti-Defamation League calls on Twitter to remove Taliban accounts

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 20, 2021
The synagogue of Guantanamo, Cuba, on the second floor of the Mizrahi household, on the eve of the community's 90th anniversary celebration (Photo/Laura Paull)
Posted inNews

Local fundraising event to aid Cuban Jews

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett August 20, 2021August 21, 2021
Students at Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto during the 2020-21 school year. (Photo/Deena Riddle)
Posted inEducation

Kehillah students must be vaxed. Other local Jewish schools are still weighing their options.

by Gabriel Greschler August 18, 2021August 23, 2021
A syringe and a bottle reading "Covid-19 Vaccine" next to the Pfizer company logo in Jerusalem on December 10, 2020.
(Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Posted inBay Area

Q&A: Fighting the war against vaccine misinformation and fear

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 17, 2021August 17, 2021
Afghans at the Kabul airport on Aug. 16, 2021, hoping to flee as the Taliban retake the country. (Photo/JTA-AFP via Getty Images) INSET: Yasamin Taher, Afghan case manager at JFCS East Bay.
Posted inBay Area

Q&A: Insider view from an Afghan employee at JFCS — and how you can help

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 17, 2021August 17, 2021
Rabbi Yoel Kahn (left) speaking on a panel at the 2015 convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. (Photo/File)
Posted inUncategorized

Rabbi Yoel Kahn retires after 36 years of service to Bay Area Jews

by Dan Pine August 16, 2021August 17, 2021
Benjamin Netanyahu visits a vaccination center in Jerusalem, Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Marc Israel Sellem-Pool-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Why is Bibi in San Francisco looking so sad?

by J. Staff August 16, 2021August 16, 2021
Vitali Voskoboinik stands with his daughter, Yulia Nedzvetski, in the garden of his home at Terrace Senior Housing in Pacifica. (Photo/Lea Loeb)
Posted inBay Area

This Holocaust refugee was on death’s doorstep. But with the help of his daughter, he beat Covid-19 against all odds.

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb August 16, 2021August 16, 2021
(Clockwise from top left) Analucía Lopezrevoredo, Ginna Green, Angel Alvarez-Mapp and Janu Mandel at the Aug. 12 Zoom unveiling of the “Beyond the Count” study.
Posted inNews

‘We are not alone!’ How a new study validates the feelings of many Jews of color.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 13, 2021July 7, 2024

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