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A 2009 rally in solidarity with protesters in Iran at San Francisco City Hall. (Steve Rhodes via Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Posted inBay Area

Iranian Jewish refugee, 89, ‘grateful’ to reach Bay Area before U.S. borders shut 

by Sue Fishkoff February 5, 2025February 5, 2025
a long modern office building with a sign in front that says "Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building"
Posted inEducation

What would Trump’s plan to shut down the Education Dept. mean for antisemitism investigations?

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld February 5, 2025February 5, 2025
a billboard on a rural highway says "call me Zionist. It only makes me prouder"
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Pro-Israel billboards are latest salvo in roadside rivalry

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 4, 2025February 4, 2025
The steps of a large academic building are crowded with small tents and banners with messages such as "Glory to the Martyrs" and "Student Intifada"
Posted inBay Area

One point of consistency amid Trump’s rapid changes: a drumbeat of federal campus antisemitism investigations

by Andrew Lapin February 4, 2025February 4, 2025
“Intifada” and an upside-down red triangle representing Hamas were spray-painted on a mailbox at UC Berkeley in May 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish groups urge Cal to ‘reconsider’ Feb. event after panelists’ extreme anti-Israel statements

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 31, 2025February 5, 2025
Virtual memorial plaques are projected on the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Marcin Kozlowski-March of the Living)
Posted inEducation

State study on K-12 Holocaust education finds much is left to teachers’ ‘individual initiative’

by Ryan Torok January 31, 2025January 31, 2025
From left, Susanne Batzdorff, Evelyn Gurevitch and Edith Newman have been friends and Congregation Beth Ami members for decades. (Ron Batzdorff)
Posted inSeniors

‘Temple is people, and I need people’: Three women over 100 find joy in Santa Rosa synagogue — and each other

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz January 31, 2025February 4, 2025
Nancy Grand has promised $2.5 million toward SF Hillel's new building, seen in this artist's rendering. (Herman Coliver Locus Architecture via SF Hillel)
Posted inBay Area

$2.5 million pledge pushes SF Hillel capital campaign into final stretch

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi January 30, 2025January 31, 2025
Abe Wischnia teaches an English language class for recent Ukrainian immigrants provided by Jewish Family Services Silicon Valley on Feb. 7, 2023. (Courtesy JFS SIlicon Valley)
Posted inBay Area

Local Jewish groups aiding refugees reel as borders shut and their funding is threatened

by Sue Fishkoff January 29, 2025January 31, 2025
Michele Berry (left) and Ken Bravmann stand in Embarcadero Plaza during a Jewish Unity March against antisemitism in San Francisco on Sunday, March 3, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Majority of Bay Area Jews still felt ‘less safe’ in 2024, JCRC survey shows

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 28, 2025February 4, 2025

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