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Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara. (Photo/Minh Nguyen CC BA-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia)
Posted inTech

Inside a very bad week for Israeli tech leaders with assets in Silicon Valley Bank

Valerie Demicheva by Valerie Demicheva March 15, 2023March 15, 2023
Rabbi Rick Jacobs ( center), head of North America's Union for Reform Judaism, and other non-Orthodox Jews clashing with security guards at the entrance to the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem, Nov. 16, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash 90)
Posted inNews

In Bay Area and beyond, American pulpit rabbis wrestle with Israel’s new government

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Andrew Lapin, JTA and Lillian Ilsley-Greene March 14, 2023
low-res image of 1971 issue of Jewish Bulletin with headline "Israeli 'Turned On' by Drug Research"
Posted inFrom the Archives

Marijuana: In Israel they researched it, but blamed its use on Americans

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 14, 2023March 24, 2023
Brandon Gold pitches during the second inning against Puerto Rico at loanDepot park in Miami, March 13, 2023 (Photo/JTA-Eric Espada-Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

Team Israel loses 10-0 to Puerto Rico in World Baseball Classic’s first-ever ‘perfect’ game

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis and JTA March 14, 2023March 14, 2023
Demonstrators at a gathering of Israeli-Americans and Jewish Americans protesting the new Israeli government, Feb. 26, 2023, at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco. (Photo/Lea Loeb)
Posted inNews

Why more American Jews aren’t protesting about Israel right now

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward March 13, 2023March 13, 2023
Emanu-El Rabbis Beth and Jonathan Singer at a recent pro-democracy protest in Tel Aviv. (Photo/Courtesy Singers)
Posted inNews

Some of Israel’s staunchest Bay Area supporters are speaking out against proposed judicial reform

by Dan Pine March 13, 2023March 14, 2023
Dean Kremer pitches against Nicaragua in Israel's first game of the 2023 World Baseball Classic, March 12, 2023, in Miami. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Team Israel)
Posted inSports

Team Israel beats Nicaragua 3-1 after thrilling comeback in World Baseball Classic opener

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis and JTA March 13, 2023March 13, 2023
A world pioneer in cannabis research, Raphael Mechoulam helped form the Hebrew University Multidisciplinary Center for Cannabinoid Research in 2017. (Photo/JTA-Yoram Aschheim-Hebrew University)
Posted inObituaries

Raphael Mechoulam, Israel’s ‘father of cannabis research,’ dies at 92

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA March 10, 2023
A county in Utah allows anyone in the world to get a legal marriage certificate. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Why a county in Utah could play a role in Israel’s judicial crisis

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA March 10, 2023
Norman Weiss (center) in Golden Gate Park in 1963
Posted inFilm

Like Sammy Fabelman (and Steven Spielberg), these Bay Area students faced antisemitism in the 1960s

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 10, 2023February 14, 2024

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