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Mexico’s first female and first Jewish president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said her mother was born in Mexico. Geneological documents show she was born in Bulgaria and survived the Holocaust. Illustration by Odeya Rosenband. (Luis Antonio Rojas/Bloomberg via Getty Images and the Jewish Documentation and Research Center of Mexico.)
Posted inWorld

Mexico’s new Jewish president has not been telling the truth about her family’s Holocaust story

by Andrew Silverstein June 14, 2024June 14, 2024
Mexico’s first female and first Jewish president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said her mother was born in Mexico. Geneological documents show she was born in Bulgaria and survived the Holocaust. Illustration by Odeya Rosenband. (Luis Antonio Rojas/Bloomberg via Getty Images and the Jewish Documentation and Research Center of Mexico.)
Posted inWorld

¿Sobrevivió la familia de Claudia Sheinbaum al Holocausto y lo mantuvo en secreto?

by Andrew Silverstein June 14, 2024June 14, 2024
Kevin Pillar hits a home run against the Houston Astros at Angel Stadium, June 7, 2024, in Anaheim, Calif. (Photo/JTA-Brian Rothmuller-Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Posted inSports

As MLB veteran Kevin Pillar enjoys a late-career resurgence in L.A., he’s embracing his place as a Jewish baseball star

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis June 13, 2024June 13, 2024
Morrie Markoff in 2023. (Photo/Courtesy The Brain Donor Project)
Posted inObituaries

Morrie Markoff, Jewish supercentenarian and oldest man in US, dies at 110

by Andrew Silow-Carroll June 13, 2024June 13, 2024
California College of the Arts in San Francisco (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inArt

Professor’s lawsuit says antisemitism is ‘entrenched’ at California College of the Arts

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 11, 2024June 17, 2024
Yehuda Kurtzer (left), president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, speaks alongside Ken Bamberger, a Cal law professor and faculty co-director of the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, at UC Berkeley on April 4. (Photo/Courtesy Laura Turbow)
Posted inBay Area

UC Berkeley undergrads can add an Israel studies minor starting this fall

by Ryan Torok June 11, 2024June 11, 2024
Head of Shalhevet High School Rabbi David Block speaks at the class of 2023 graduation. (Screenshot via Vimeo)
Posted inCalifornia

L.A. Jewish day school censors two student newspaper articles on Israel-Hamas war

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg June 11, 2024June 11, 2024
A woman holds an Israeli flag aloft at an UnXeptable rally in Redwood City on June 9, 2024, calling for the Israeli government to agree to Biden's plan to the end war and bring the remaining hostages home. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inUncategorized

‘Seal the deal!’ Israeli, U.S. Jews rally in Redwood City for release of hostages

Valerie Demicheva by Valerie Demicheva June 11, 2024June 11, 2024
Rabbi David Wolfe-Blank at the Aquarian Minyan's Shavuot gathering in 1994. (Photo/Yehudit Goldfarb)
Posted inReligion

As Aquarian Minyan marks 50 years, its spiritual influence is felt far and wide

by Emma Goss June 10, 2024June 23, 2024
Benny Gantz in Feb. 2020 (Photo/JTA-Gili Yaari-Flash90)
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Benny Gantz walked out. Will Netanyahu survive?

by Jacob Kornbluh June 10, 2024

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