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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

Central Coast school board rejects Holocaust education proposal

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 9, 2025May 10, 2025
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)
Posted inBay Area

Group of SJSU faculty lose fight over Day of the Dead altar they called a modern ‘blood libel’

by Emma Goss May 9, 2025May 11, 2025
Bay Area Panthers Team President David Eisenberg. (Courtesy of Bay Area Panthers)
Posted inSports

‘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)
Posted inCalifornia

Ethnic studies dominates Jewish lobbying summit in Sacramento

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi May 7, 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)
Posted inEducation

‘What is the end here?’ Local Jewish campus leaders react to Trump crackdown

by Emma Goss May 6, 2025May 7, 2025
Alcatraz Island (Bernard Sprague via Flickr)
Posted inBay Area

The secret Jewish history of Alcatraz

by Benjamin Ivry May 6, 2025May 6, 2025
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
Oshman Family JCC Israel Cultural Connection senior director Ronit Jacobs (right) wears a crown and an Israeli flag during at a JCC fundraising event in March. (OFJCC)
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She creates a ‘home away from home for Israelis’ in Palo Alto

by Dan Pine April 28, 2025July 24, 2025
Classical architecture of Harvard Law School's facade with iconic columns, perfect for educational themes.
Posted inEducation

S.F. Jewish bar association offers law school scholarships

by Dan Pine April 28, 2025April 28, 2025

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