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Gov. Gavin Newsom announcing the formation of the Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, Oct. 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Newsom's office)
Posted inCalifornia

ADL urges Gov. Newsom to sign online hate bill opposed by tech companies

by J. Staff August 31, 2022
The Googleplex, Google's Mountain View headquarters. (Photo/Flickr-Robbie Shade CC BY 2.0)
Posted inNews

Jewish Google employee who protested an Israeli contract resigns after alleging ‘retaliation’

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 31, 2022August 31, 2022
Rabbi Jason Rodich at the entrance to Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, which has long used metal detectors and unarmed guards to screen people coming into the building. (Photo/Sue Barnett)
Posted inNews

State bill will extend security grants program ‘indefinitely’

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene August 31, 2022August 31, 2022
Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev at the European Parliament in Brussels, May 26, 2008. (Photo/European Parliament-Pietro Naj-Oleari CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Posted inObituaries

Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader whose reforms included letting Jews leave for Israel, dies at 91

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 31, 2022August 31, 2022
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev made the front page of our paper.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Gorbachev was closely watched in Bay Area, a center of Soviet Jewry activism

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 31, 2022August 31, 2022
a water tower that says UC Davis in blue writing
Posted inNorthern California

Antisemitic banners hung near UC Davis by white supremacist fight club

by J. Staff August 30, 2022August 30, 2022
Sixteen young social media influencers, whose combined following reaches 32 million users worldwide, joined forces on a bus trip to northern Israel, June 22, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Deborah Danan)
Posted inU.S.

Eating grasshoppers for Israel: On the bus with an army of pro-Israel TikTok influencers

by Deborah Danan and JTA August 30, 2022
Beth Lee, AKA the "brisket maven," says she's found the most inexpensive brisket at Costco. (Photo/Courtesy Lee)
Posted inBay Area

How much will your Rosh Hashanah brisket cost this year?

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss August 30, 2022September 5, 2022
During the service, Krieger wears a tallit, gold booty shorts and a couple strings of pearls — and nothing else. “It’s really hot there,” he said. (Photo/Courtesy Krieger)
Posted inReligion

Burning Man is back. Get ready for a 1,000-person Shabbat bash in the desert.

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward August 29, 2022August 29, 2022
Participants in a 125th anniversary gathering of the 1897 First Zionist Congress will recreate an iconic photograph taken then of Theodor Herzl, father of modern political Zionism. (Photo/JTA-GPO via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

World Zionist Organization convenes hundreds in Basel to mark 125th anniversary of First Zionist Congress

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA August 29, 2022

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