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Children light candles as part of their lessons at Yachad Religious School in Oak Park Michigan. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Yachad)
Posted inEducation

Hebrew school enrollment across US down by nearly half since 2006, report says

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA April 20, 2023April 20, 2023
Yom HaAtzmaut celebration at Congregation Emanu El in San Francisco, May 1, 2017. (File photo)
Posted inYom HaAtzmaut

Even in crisis, Israel at 75 deserves celebration, local planners say

by Dan Pine April 20, 2023
Posted inNews

Did standing up for Jewish students cost a Black faculty member her job at De Anza College?

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 19, 2023March 25, 2025
Then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nov. 19, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Wade Vandervort-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Kevin McCarthy to address Israeli Knesset amid chill in relations between Biden and Netanyahu

by Ron Kampeas and JTA April 19, 2023
Wilderness Torah's signature annual event, Passover in the Desert, drew its biggest crowd yet to the Mojave Desert, April 5-10, 2023. (Photo/Julia Maryanska)
Posted inBay Area

‘We passed through that storm’: Wilderness Torah raises enough to keep going

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 18, 2023April 18, 2023
American Jewish University in Bel Air, California. (Photo/Wikimedia-Cbl62 CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inCalifornia

Former rabbinical students complain to Conservative movement about sexism at LA seminary

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward April 18, 2023
Kings center Domantas Sabonis at Chabad of Sacramento's Purim party, March 7, 2023.
Posted inSports

‘We’re gonna need a bigger mikvah’: Twitter reacts to news that Kings star Domantas Sabonis is converting

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 18, 2023April 18, 2023
Holocaust survivor Leon Rajninger at his home in San Francisco. (Photo/Liz Harris)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Read and watch testimony from 10 Bay Area Holocaust survivors

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 18, 2023April 18, 2023
Marion Friedeberg in her sports car (left) and a 1947 article in the Examiner about her (right).
Posted inSeniors

This 90-year-old Holocaust survivor still zips around S.F. in her sports car

by Liz Harris April 17, 2023
Two pictures. On the left, a color photo of an ornate silver cup. On the right, a vintage photo of a woman smiling outside, sitting on a bench.
Posted inYom HaShoah

Nazi-looted silver cup comes home to Bay Area descendant after 80 years

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz April 17, 2023April 18, 2023

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