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A raucous election night scene at Manny's in San Francisco's Mission District. (Photo/Devlin Shand)
Posted inNews

Local results: Jewish-backed props failing, Jewish incumbents reelected

by Gabriel Greschler November 4, 2020November 10, 2020
The new community center under construction at URJ Camp Newman. (Photo/Courtesy Newman)
Posted inNews

‘It feels like hope’: Three years after fire, Camp Newman plans return home in 2021

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 3, 2020November 10, 2020
Sequoia Union High School District office in Redwood City. (Photo/Wikimedia-Jeanjung212 CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inEducation

Peninsula school district to create its own ethnic studies curriculum

by Dan Pine November 2, 2020November 10, 2020
Campaign mailer sent by Rich Desmond’s campaign shows opponent Gregg Fishman in a shrugging pose. (Photo/Courtesy Fishman)
Posted inNews

Opponent’s use of ‘shrugging’ image is antisemitic, Sacramento pol says

by Gabriel Greschler November 2, 2020
A gathering of Jewish fraternity and sorority members in Minneapolis in 1949. (Photo/Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest)
Posted inHistory

What the history of Greek life reveals about Jewish whiteness and the price of assimilation

by Jess Schwalb and Hey Alma November 2, 2020November 2, 2020
Andrew Hoffman as a child with his father, Abbie Hoffman, stepmother Anita Kushner and younger sister Amy (out of frame). (Photo/Courtesy Hoffman)
Posted inCulture

Abbie Hoffman’s Bay Area son, activists recall real ‘Chicago 7’ trial

Frances Dinkelspiel by Frances Dinkelspiel October 30, 2020November 11, 2020
The wedding of Michael Chertok and Anthony Sauler was recently covered in The New York Times by J. contributing editor Alix Wall.
Posted inOur Crowd

Honors, happenings, comings & goings — October 2020

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky October 30, 2020November 23, 2020
Vandalism on a home in Lafayette. (Photo/Facebook)
Posted inBay Area

Lafayette home defaced with swastika and Trump’s name

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 29, 2020
Ilana Master went to Arizona to organize and knock on doors with the Sunrise Movement. (Photo/Courtesy Master)
Posted inNews

Across generations, they’re pushing climate change to the forefront

by Gabriel Greschler October 29, 2020October 29, 2020
a white man with a black mask over her nose and mouth stands at the front of a classroom
Posted inEducation

How Jewish schools are making pandemic safety part of the curriculum

by Gabriel Greschler October 28, 2020October 28, 2020

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