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Middle East School II, one of the several schools located at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, in Monterey, Aug. 6, 2002. (Photo/JTA-Kim Kulish-Corbis via Getty Images)
Posted inCalifornia

Elite U.S. military language school in Monterey drops Hebrew

by Ron Kampeas and JTA April 8, 2021April 8, 2021
Feinstein Elementary, named for the current U.S. senator and former San Francisco mayor, was slated for renaming under an SFUSD board plan. (Photo/Google Maps)
Posted inEducation

Facing litigation, S.F. school board rescinds renaming plan

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 7, 2021
Students at Alameda High School are using social media to call out fellow students who have shared racist and antisemitic messages on social media. (Screenshots/Courtesy) Background: Alameda High School (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inEducation

Alameda High parents and students call out another round of racist, antisemitic posts

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 6, 2021April 12, 2021
Screenshot from “Antisemitism in Our Midst.”
Posted inNews

Antisemitism video explainer from UC Berkeley aims to cool campus debate

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 2, 2021April 3, 2021
Holocaust Memorial at the California Legion of Honor in San Francisco (Photo/Library of Congress-Carol M. Highsmith)
Posted inYom HaShoah

Bay Area programs to honor Holocaust victims, survivors

by J. Staff April 2, 2021April 5, 2021
Sarah Goody: “I've learned how to focus not on the people who disagree with you, but on the people who agree with you.” (Photo/Norm Levin)
Posted inBay Area, News

Sarah Goody: The Bay Area’s very own Greta

by Gabriel Greschler April 2, 2021April 1, 2021
Two pieces of digital art by the street artist fnnch: On the left, an NFT auctioned off as part of a star-studded virtual seder. On the right: Its twin, which was hidden in an online profile as afikomen during the seder.
Posted inCulture

Matzah ‘NFT’ digital art fetches $4,200 in charity auction

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 31, 2021April 1, 2021
Richard Grenell speaks at a 2019 Turning Point USA event in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo/Flickr-Gage Skidmore)
Posted inNews

Potential Newsom challenger compares vaccine passport to Nazi persecution

by Gabriel Greschler March 30, 2021March 30, 2021
Al Baum, seen here at Miller's Deli in San Francisco, died March 28 at the age of 90. (Photo/Rajat Dutta)
Posted inObituaries

S.F. Jewish and LGBTQ icon Al Baum dies at 90 after ‘full, rich life’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 30, 2021March 31, 2021
The Jews of Color Initiative's Ilana Kaufman (blue shirt and glasses, seventh from left) and Angel Alvarez-Mapp (black shirt and glasses, sixth from left) meet with Jewish community leaders at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.
Posted inUncategorized

Steven Spielberg giving $200,000 to Bay Area-based Jews of Color Initiative

by JTA and J. Staff March 26, 2021March 29, 2021

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