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Protesters hold aloft a large banner that reads "Solidarity With Palestinian Labor Unions"
Posted inBay Area

Israeli postdoc at UC Berkeley files lawsuit against her union, alleging bias

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 27, 2025February 4, 2025
A poultry factory farm. (Carol Highsmith via rawpixel.com CC0)
Posted inHealth

What you want to know about bird flu but are (or should be) too afraid to ask 

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 27, 2025January 29, 2025
Two grey-haired men hug
Posted inIsrael

Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s high school has lost 10 graduates in the Gaza war. Where does it go next?

by Deborah Danan January 27, 2025January 27, 2025
An older man in a suit speaks with an American flag behind him
Posted inPolitics

Trump Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff draws on personal tragedy to push for the release of Israeli hostages

by Jacob Kornbluh January 27, 2025January 27, 2025
Four young women on a stage
Posted inNews

Four more hostages released in choreographed ceremony

Ben Sales by Ben Sales January 26, 2025January 26, 2025
A demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a protest at UC Berkeley on May 7, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

UC Berkeley removes event description denying Oct. 7 rapes 

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 24, 2025January 24, 2025
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump participate in the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 15, 2020. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

Could Donald Trump be the next liberal Zionist hero?

Ben Sales by Ben Sales January 24, 2025January 24, 2025
The main tower at the entrance to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, covered under a large tent, stands illuminated during the official ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp on Jan. 27, 2020. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation

by Toby Axelrod January 24, 2025January 24, 2025
Luba Grungras, who is believed to be the last living survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp in the Bay Area, at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living on Jan. 16, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inFirst Person

‘I did not understand I was still alive’: At 100, Auschwitz survivor recalls Holocaust horrors

by Luba Grungras January 23, 2025January 24, 2025
A woman in a blue hoodie stands in front of a tall, fire-marked menorah outside
Posted inBay Area

‘We did what we could’: S.F. firefighter who joined emergency team in L.A. describes ‘surreal’ wildfires

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi January 23, 2025January 24, 2025

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