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Founders of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, included Sephardic Jewish families who belonged to New York's Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in the 1700s. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy)
Posted inU.S.

NY congregation can evict tenants of historic Touro Synagogue, Rhode Island judge rules

by Andrew Silow-Carroll August 30, 2023August 30, 2023
LJ Bernstein blows a shofar at an Or Shalom Jewish Community picnic in Marx Meadows in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inReligion

UPDATED: Free and low-cost High Holiday services around the Bay Area

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb August 30, 2023September 19, 2023
Woman assemble post-abortion kits at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, Aug. 20, 2023.
(Photo/Stuart Yusem)
Posted inNews

Jewish women assemble post-abortion care packages to offer ‘meaningful support’

by Yonatan Greenberg August 29, 2023August 30, 2023
Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush speaking in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Feb. 13, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Murat Gok-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized, World

Libyan foreign minister is fired and flees to Turkey after meeting her Israeli counterpart

Ben Sales by Ben Sales August 29, 2023August 29, 2023
The AEPi house at UC Berkeley, the grounds of which were recently strewn with shellfish in an apparent antisemitic act. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inBay Area

UPDATED: Shellfish dumped on UC Berkeley’s Jewish frat house on first Shabbat of semester

by Emma Goss August 28, 2023August 30, 2023
Dr. Adrienne Green, the new CEO of the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, in the main courtyard at the facility, which was formerly known as the Jewish Home, Aug. 28, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inSeniors

S.F. Jewish senior facility makes history with new CEO

by Ryan Torok August 28, 2023
People walk past the Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store where three people were shot and killed the day before, on Aug. 27, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Sean Rayford-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Man who killed 3 Black shoppers in Jacksonville carried a swastika-decorated gun

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer August 28, 2023August 28, 2023
"We no longer wait for the 'magic' to occur. We incorporate entrepreneurship into the curriculum," says Tel Aviv University's Moshe Zviran. (Photo/Courtesy TAU)
Posted inTech

Stanford study: Tel Aviv U. breeds most ‘unicorn’ startups outside U.S.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 25, 2023August 29, 2023
The wedding of Molly Kazin, who is Jewish, and Evan Marshall, who is not, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, on Nov. 20, 2021. Though Kazin grew up in a Conservative congregation, she assumed she could not get a rabbi in the movement to preside at her wedding, and found one through the organization where she works, 18Doors, which supports relationships between Jews and non-Jews. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Molly Kazin)
Posted inReligion

Conservative movement’s ban on rabbis officiating at interfaith weddings will stand

Louis Keene by Louis Keene August 25, 2023
Thanks to new technology, the remains of resistance fighter Bernard Luza (left) were recently identified in the Netherlands, as was the precise location of a massacre of Jews in Latvia, memorialized in a plaque in the general vicinity. (Photos/JTA-Dutch Ministry of Defense, Google Maps)
Posted inHistory

Holocaust gravesites identified in Latvia and Netherlands using contemporary technology

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg August 25, 2023August 25, 2023

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