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Posted inIsrael

These are the 59 Israeli hostages still held in Gaza

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer March 7, 2025March 7, 2025
Theater director Evgenia "Zhenya" Berkovich (left) with her daughters. (Ira Polyarnaya)
Posted inBay Area

Bay Area emigre fights to free Jewish theater director imprisoned in Russia

by Sue Fishkoff March 6, 2025March 18, 2025
A Mobile Museums of Tolerance bus parked in Piedmont on March 4. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inEducation

Museum on wheels teaches local teens how regular Germans became ‘army of hate’

by Dan Pine March 6, 2025March 9, 2025
Freed Israeli hostages appeal to President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 5. (Screenshot)
Posted inU.S.

‘We’ll get them out,’ Trump tells 7 released Israeli hostages in Oval Office meeting

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer March 6, 2025March 7, 2025
An Iranian cleric walks past a Jewish symbol of a menorah, shaped to spell the Hebrew words "shalom olam," meaning "world peace," during a ceremony commemorating the Jewish soldiers who died in the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) at a Jewish cemetery in southern Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 6, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Trump promised to protect Jews and religious liberty. His refugee ban is keeping out 700 persecuted Iranian Jews.

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev March 6, 2025March 6, 2025
Camp Tawonga's garden at its peak during summer 2024. This summer a new Garden Kitchen will open next to the garden itself. (Courtesy)
Posted inKids & Family

The dirt on summer camps: Gardens, kid-focused kitchens grow in popularity

by Sue Fishkoff March 5, 2025March 9, 2025
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage during a campaign rally at the J.S. Dorton Arena, Raleigh, North Carolina, Nov. 4, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael

Trump posts ‘Shalom Hamas’ and says Gazans will be ‘DEAD’ if they keep holding hostages

Ben Sales by Ben Sales March 5, 2025March 5, 2025
President Donald Trump speaks to journalists in the Oval Office on January 20, 2025. (Jim WATSON/ POOL/AFP)
Posted inU.S.

Trump threatens to pull funding from campuses that allow ‘illegal protests’

Ben Sales by Ben Sales March 5, 2025March 5, 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 inEducation

UC Berkeley on list of 10 campuses targeted by DOJ in antisemitism probe

by Emma Goss March 4, 2025March 4, 2025
Hamantaschen at Saul’s Deli in Berkeley. ( (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inFood

UPDATED: Hamantaschen and beyond: Where to find Purim pastries around the Bay Area

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 4, 2025February 13, 2026

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