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a man smiles as he gazes up at the rafters of an unusually angled sukkah
Posted inBay Area

Three design teams erect unique sukkahs for competition at Urban Adamah

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi October 16, 2024October 18, 2024
Trump shrugs while speaking at a lectern with the RJC logo on it
Posted inPolitics

Forward poll: Jewish voters say Trump is more supportive of Israelis but Harris is better on Gaza war

Lauren Markoe by Lauren Markoe October 16, 2024October 16, 2024
Displaced Palestinians inspect their tents, which were hit from an Israeli airstrike, in the Al-Mawasi area, Gaza Strip, Oct. 15, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
Posted inIsrael

Biden warns Israel to allow humanitarian relief into Gaza or face cuts to military aid

by Ron Kampeas October 16, 2024October 16, 2024
Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of UC Berkeley Law. (Photo/File)
Posted inBay Area

Berkeley Law dean on antisemitism, the campus climate and what free speech is, and is not

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 15, 2024October 16, 2024
A sukkah banner distributed by Hakhel, the Goldberg-Polins’ synagogue in Jerusalem, features Hersh’s face with the word meaning light. Shlomit Sattler hung the banner in her Jerusalem sukkah. (Courtesy Sattler)
Posted inIsrael

Israelis are decorating their first sukkahs since Oct. 7 with symbols of the crisis since

by Deborah Danan October 15, 2024October 15, 2024
At Stanford shopping center Oct. 7, 2024, a handful of Jewish pro-Israel activists confronted and clashed with anti-Zionist protesters (Screenshot)
Posted inNews

Two arrested in Palo Alto as angry protesters celebrate Oct. 7 Hamas attacks

by Emma Goss October 14, 2024October 15, 2024
Schiller Bikes CEO Jessica Schiller rides a water bike past the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands. (Courtesy Jessica Schiller)
Posted inUncategorized

Mom ‘rides’ waves to Farallons to honor daughter who died of an overdose

by Dan Pine October 14, 2024October 15, 2024
A man and woman in white cantorial robes stand on the bimah, with two others holding a Torah off to the side
Posted inWorld, News

Historic Prague synagogue used on Yom Kippur for the first time since the Holocaust

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov October 14, 2024October 14, 2024
Harris stands speaking at a lectern with a JDCA logo on it
Posted inPolitics

In final stretch, Harris and Trump intensify outreach to Jewish voters in key swing states

by Jacob Kornbluh October 14, 2024October 14, 2024
Iva Kesselman's bat mitzvah on March 14, 1998. Iva is at center, between her older sister Talya and younger sister Maya. (Courtesy Michael Kesselman)
Posted inPhilanthropy

In ’90s, Brandeis kids turned b’nai mitzvah cash into grants and never looked back

by Sue Fishkoff October 11, 2024October 12, 2024

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