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A Day of the Dead altar for Palestinian children killed in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war was on display in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in fall 2024. (Courtesy Shlomit and Yigal Blum)
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Group of SJSU faculty lose fight over Day of the Dead altar they called a modern ‘blood libel’

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 9, 2025May 11, 2025
Bay Area Panthers Team President David Eisenberg. (Courtesy of Bay Area Panthers)
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‘Constant action’: Former 49ers exec heads indoors with Bay Area Panthers

Gabe Fisher by Gabe Fisher May 8, 2025May 9, 2025
Student activists, many wearing kaffiyehs, attend a public negotiation session between San Francisco State University administrators and students who demand that the university divest from companies that do business with Israel on May 6, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Cal State says it won’t divest from Israel over student hunger strike

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 7, 2025May 7, 2025
JPAC executive director David Bocarsly addresses attendees of the JPAC summit at the Sheraton Grand hotel in Sacramento on May 5, 2025. (Camden Hosea-Small/JPAC)
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Ethnic studies dominates Jewish lobbying summit in Sacramento

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi May 7, 2025May 7, 2025
Attendees line up for opening night of the 2022 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival at the Castro Theater. (David A.M. Wilensky/J. Staff)
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S.F. Jewish Film Festival org loses two NEA grants

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 6, 2025May 7, 2025
A demonstrator holds a sign calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil during a protest against the arrest of the Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist at UC Berkeley, March 11, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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‘What is the end here?’ Local Jewish campus leaders react to Trump crackdown

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 6, 2025May 7, 2025
Alcatraz Island (Bernard Sprague via Flickr)
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The secret Jewish history of Alcatraz

by Benjamin Ivry May 6, 2025May 6, 2025
Shona Armstrong (left) holds the head of the peace crane/dove during a rally promoting co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians organized by SFBay4Peace and Bay Area Friends of Standing Together at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater in Oakland on May 3, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Oakland rally mourns loss of life on both sides as Israel-Hamas war drags on

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 5, 2025May 6, 2025
Around 20 pro-Palestinian students hold a press conference about USF divesting from weapons manufacturers at the University of San Francisco on Thursday, May 1, 2025. (Screenshot via Instagram/usfcastudents4palestine)
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USF divests from defense firms, but says it’s unrelated to Israel

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An anti-Israel activist holds a cardboard sign that reads “Zionists are Nazis” as the Berkeley City Council discusses a Gaza cease-fire resolution on April 28, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Amid vitriol, Berkeley finally passes tepid resolution on Gaza

by Sue Fishkoff April 29, 2025April 30, 2025

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