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Pajaro Valley Unified School District board member Gabriel Medina (right) talks to Jewish attendees of a school board meeting about ethnic studies, April 16, 2025. (Screenshot via YouTube/Pajaro Valley Unified School District)
Posted inEducation

ADL accuses Central Coast school board members of ‘blatant’ antisemitism

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 21, 2025April 22, 2025
Man speaks at podium
Posted inPolitics

Ethnic studies bill in state legislature will be a fight, says JPAC director

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi April 21, 2025April 21, 2025
Offir Gutelzon in San Francisco rallies against proposed judicial changes during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the Bay Area in September 2023. (Courtesy Gili Getz)
Posted inBay Area

The Palo Alto expat who finds the threat to Israeli democracy ‘unXeptable’

by Sue Fishkoff April 17, 2025April 20, 2025
From left, Marc Mazer, Susan Talon-Mazer, Rabbi Dan Goldblatt and Zoë Francesca Goldblatt of the AriYael Jewish Healing Center. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inReligion

A Bay Area Jewish healing center expands as it embraces mourning, celebration

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz April 15, 2025April 16, 2025
A woman wearing a hijab and a woman in a light pink blazer sit on a stage, reaching out to hold each other's hands
Posted inIdeas

Some bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families still seek peace — even after Oct. 7

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi April 14, 2025September 25, 2025
A protester carries a large cutout image of Richard Saller, Stanford's interim president, with "Shame" written across his face on June 5, 2024. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
Posted inBay Area

Pro-Palestinian protesters who took over office at Stanford hit with felonies

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 11, 2025April 15, 2025
Melissa Chapman, CEO of the East Bay Jewish Community Center, at the JCC in Berkeley on April 14, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

JCC East Bay CEO to leave after ‘painful’ post-Oct. 7 reckoning 

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 10, 2025April 17, 2025
Ron Kaufman, whose company specializes in the preservation of historic buildings, points to a map of the various properties he’s helped recover and preserve at his office in San Francisco on April 3, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inThe J. Interview

Ron Kaufman: Restorer of S.F. waterfront and, at 90, a published author

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 9, 2025April 16, 2025
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesperson for the anti-Zionist haredi sect Neturei Karta, in an Al-Jazeera video shown to high school students in San Jose. (Screenshot)
Posted inBay Area

State probe: Two San Jose teachers’ lessons ‘discriminated’ against Jews

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 8, 2025April 15, 2025
Head coach Todd Golden of the Florida Gators looks on during the first half of a game against the Auburn Tigers, Feb. 10, 2024, in Gainesville, Florida. (James Gilbert/Getty Images)
Posted inSports

Former USF coach Todd Golden becomes first Jewish coach to win March Madness since 1988

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and J. Staff April 8, 2025April 14, 2025

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