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Left: Eyal Mevorach Twito  was killed in fighting in Gaza on Jan. 22. (Photo/Courtesy); The next day, some 100 people attended a memorial service for him at Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland, which his family attended when they lived in the Bay Area. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inObituaries

‘I had a child, and he is no more’: Oakland Hebrew Day School alum Eyal Twito, 22, killed in Gaza fighting

by Dan Pine January 23, 2024January 26, 2024
Michal Cotler-Wunsh (right) speaking with at Oshman Family JCC CEO Zack Bodner on Jan. 22, 2024. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inNews

Israel’s envoy for combating antisemitism makes her case in Bay Area

by Sue Fishkoff January 23, 2024January 23, 2024
From left: Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Katie Porter and former L.A. Dodgers first baseman Steve Garvey share the stage at a California senatorial campaign debate, Jan. 22, 2023. (Screenshot/FOX 11)
Posted inCalifornia

What California’s Senate candidates said about Israel and Gaza in their first debate

Louis Keene by Louis Keene January 23, 2024January 23, 2024
The iconic entrance gate of the Auschwitz concentration camp that reads "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) seen on the 83rd anniversary of the first transport of Poles to the Auschwitz camp at Oswiecim, Poland on June 14, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Omar Marques-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inTech

Meta is failing to catch memes and innuendo promoting Holocaust denial, oversight panel concludes

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev January 23, 2024
A man in a t-shirt that reads "Jews rape kids" attends an anti-abortion rally in San Francisco, Jan. 20, 2024. (Screenshot via Twitter; Video by TikTok user @acreativequeer)
Posted inNews

‘Jews rape kids’: Antisemites among crowd at anti-abortion rally in San Francisco

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 22, 2024January 22, 2024
Congregation Shir Shalom Hebrew school students before Shabbat in November. Parker and Brooklyn Mayer (wearing the hat and in pink) are the daughters of Christian Pastor Jason Mayer. (Photo/Courtesy Rabbi Steve Finley)
Posted inEducation

A Sonoma Hebrew School opens to non-Jews in bid to combat antisemitism

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 22, 2024January 23, 2024
Many scholars say their schools’ DEI offices ignored Jewish concerns — either not recognizing Jews as a minority or seeing them as white and privileged, and therefore not subject to marginalization. (Getty Images; JTA illustration by Mollie Suss)
Posted inAnalysis

Kill it or reform it? Jewish critics of DEI debate the future of campus diversity programs

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 22, 2024
A participant holds up a placard during a demonstration against racism and far-right politics in front of the Siegestor (Victory Gate) memorial arch in Munich, Germany, Jan. 21, 2024. (Photo/JTA-Michaela Stache-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

German protesters say meeting by far-right extremists echoed the Nazis’ notorious ‘Wannsee’ conference

by Toby Axelrod January 22, 2024January 22, 2024
A memorial exhibit in Tel Aviv recreates the scenes at the Nova musical festival, where scores of women were raped and murdered during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel. (Photo/Miriam Kaim)
Posted inNews

World has turned its back on Israeli women, leaders of rape crisis centers tell Bay Area Jews

Natalie Weinstein in downtown San Francisco, Feb. 24, 2026. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Natalie Weinstein January 19, 2024January 21, 2024
Stow Lake is dead. Long live Blue Heron Lake! (Wikimedia/Brocken Inaglory)
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Golden Gate Park lake named for antisemitic politician bestowed with new one

Gabe Fisher by Gabe Fisher January 19, 2024

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