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In a 1926 issue of this newspaper, Rabbi S. Felix Mendelsohn wrote about what he called “Jewish nationalism,” which we today would call a secular Jewish identity.
Posted inFrom the Archives

This week’s JCRC survey reminds us: We’ve been asking ‘Who is a Jew?’ for a long time

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 7, 2022December 7, 2022
cover of Time shows painterly image of Zelensky gazing off heroically
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As Time’s Person of the Year, Zelensky joins a short list of Jews, and a longer list of antisemites

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward December 7, 2022
John Muhammad is sworn in to the St. Petersburg city council, Oct. 20, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Tampa Bay Times)
Posted inUncategorized

How Jewish leaders tried — and failed — to keep a Farrakhan follower off a Florida city council

by Andrew Lapin and JTA December 7, 2022
Then-President of Israel Reuven Rivlin during a visit to an Israeli desalination plant in 2018. (Photo/Marck Neyman via Wikicommons)
Posted inCalifornia

Israel has water expertise aplenty to offer California, says S.F.-based consul

by Ryan Torok December 6, 2022December 7, 2022
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., March 21, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Kevin LaMarque-Pool-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Blinken at J Street: US will judge Israeli government on its policies, not its politicians

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 5, 2022December 5, 2022
Nov. 29, 2021 menorah lighting at Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto
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Survey of Bay Area Jews touches on family ties, Israel views, antisemitic experiences

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman December 5, 2022January 24, 2025
Leili Davari, Tonda Case, Rebekkah Scharf and Ilana Kaufman discuss intersectionality and Jewish women of color at a July 21, 2019 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival panel. (Photo/Barak Shrama-Courtesy San Francisco Jewish Film Festival)
Posted inPhilanthropy

‘Racial Equity Informed Philanthropy’: Guide offers new framework for Jewish giving

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene December 5, 2022December 6, 2022
Abe Foxman at an Anti-Defamation League event at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, May 8, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Michael Kovac-WireImage-Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael

Abe Foxman: If Smotrich and Ben-Gvir get their way, Israel will lose me and American Jews

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 2, 2022
Josh Cohen when he was a student at UC San Diego. (Photo/Courtesy UCSD Athletics)
Posted inSports

How local soccer phenom Josh Cohen went from underdog to Israeli Footballer of the Year

Gabe Fisher by Gabe Fisher December 2, 2022December 5, 2022
Kanye West (left), wearing a full-face mask and doing a Netanyahu impression, with Alex Jones on "InfoWars," Dec. 1, 2022. (Screenshot/JTA)
Posted inNews

‘I like Hitler,’ Kanye West repeatedly tells Alex Jones during 3-hour ‘InfoWars’ appearance

by Andrew Lapin and JTA December 1, 2022

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