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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 inBay Area

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

by Dan Pine August 16, 2021July 2, 2026
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
Three teens stand together — one Latina, one Asian, one black — the Asian one is wearing a t-shirt that reads "This is what Jewish looks like."
Posted inU.S.

80% of Jews of color have faced discrimination in Jewish settings, according to massive new survey

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA August 12, 2021August 12, 2021
Anatoly Smolkin (Photo/Berkeley Police) interrupted a Shabbat service at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley (Photo/File).
Posted inBay Area

Ranting disbarred lawyer disrupts Berkeley synagogue service, then goes looking for Chabad rabbi

by J. Staff August 12, 2021August 17, 2021
A congregant recites the blessing on the Shabbat candles at Sherith Israel’s first in-person Shabbat service on June 18, 2021. (Photo/Natalie Schrik)
Posted inNews

Synagogues had big High Holiday plans. Then came the delta variant.

by Gabriel Greschler August 12, 2021August 12, 2021

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