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Asher Smiley (right), owner of Krav Maga Revolution in Petaluma. (Photo/Courtesy Asher Smiley)
Posted inNews

Krav Maga gyms practice a new kind of self-defense during pandemic

by Gabriel Greschler October 27, 2020October 27, 2020
Rabbi Serena Eisenberg and Israel's then-Consul General Shlomi Kofman at the AJC Diplomats Seder at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, March 22, 2018. (Photo/AJC-Mariah Tiffany)
Posted inTech

35 years on, what does the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement mean to California?

Susanne T. Stirling by Susanne T. Stirling October 26, 2020October 26, 2020
Pro-affirmative action protesters carry signs about Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, a Supreme Court case regarding affirmative action at UC Davis, as they march before the federal court house in Foley Square in New York City on June 30, 1978. (Photo/AP)
Posted inNews

Jewish orgs back Prop. 16 despite complicated history with affirmative action

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 26, 2020October 30, 2020
Jerome Cobert on duty at the Berkeley Marina in 1999.
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: A Jewish former cop whose mother finally came around

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller October 26, 2020October 26, 2020
A student walks on the campus of Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. (Photo/Courtesy Foothill College)
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Students at Foothill College pass antisemitism resolution

by Gabriel Greschler October 23, 2020October 27, 2020
a Contra Costa County Sheriff car parked in front of a government office building
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Judge rules that Nazi-obsessed East Bay man must face trial

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 23, 2020October 27, 2020
Freddie Lee Smith aka Zachary RunningWolf occupying an oak tree in Berkeley in 2006. (Photo/Twitter)
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Berkeley man known to police charged with Oakland synagogue vandalism

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 22, 2020October 23, 2020
A panel from Bernard Zakheim's expansive WPA murals on medical history in UCSF's Toland Hall auditorium; Zakheim working on the mural in 1937. (Photos/UCSF Archives and Special Collections)
Posted inCulture

S.F. firm wins bid to remove historic Zakheim murals at UCSF

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 22, 2020October 27, 2020
A swastika was found painted on Temple Sinai’s carved wooden door in Oakland, Oct. 18, 2020. (Photo/Courtesy Temple Sinai)
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Temple Sinai hit with swastika, police investigating as hate crime

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 20, 2020October 22, 2020
a middle aged black man in a suit speaks at a podium
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State initiative to fight bias, make public schools safer

by Dan Pine October 19, 2020

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