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S.F. school board facing legal questions about new Muslim holidays policy

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 18, 2022August 18, 2022
Members of the Oberammergau Passion Play, which has been telling the New Testament story of Jesus’ death and resurrection since 1634, sing backstage in Oberammergau, Germany, July 12, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Angelika Warmuth-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

The director of Germany’s infamous Passion Play takes its antisemitic stereotypes by the horns

by Toby Axelrod and JTA August 18, 2022August 19, 2022
Ruth Temkim (left) and Sandy Pospisil pack meals for the HaMotzi food assistance program at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, Aug. 7, 2022. (Photo/Samantha Laurey)
Posted inJewish Life

At many Bay Area synagogues, the real action is social action

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene August 18, 2022August 19, 2022
David Friedman, the Trump administration's ambassador to Israel, endorsed Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Aug. 17, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inNews

Republican Jews, including Trump’s Israel ambassador, back Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 18, 2022August 18, 2022
An Edah program in 2019 (Photo/File)
Posted inEducation

Merger streamlines two East Bay after-school programs

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene August 17, 2022
Philosopher Jason Stanley (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Yale University)
Posted inNews

A philosopher went viral for tweeting about ‘polite dinners’ with Nazis. Here’s what he really thinks.

by Sarah Nachimson and Forward August 17, 2022
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai on the USS General M.C. Meigs, 1949 (Photo/Courtesy U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library)
Posted inFrom the Archives

75 years ago this week: San Francisco was ‘Port of Hope’ for Jewish refugees from Shanghai

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 17, 2022August 17, 2022
Rolf Eden at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 24, 2017 (Photo/JTA-Matthias Nareyek-Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Rolf Eden, German playboy and nightclub impresario who fought in Israel’s War of Independence, dies at 92

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 17, 2022August 17, 2022
Shira Potash (right) and her mother Helen Seligmann Hordes in front of their family's former home in Ronnenberg, Germany. (Photo/Stephanie Cimino)
Posted inNews

Her family’s old house has become a poignant memorial to a German town’s Jewish past

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 16, 2022August 17, 2022
Omar looks down smiling, standing in front of a group of people holding "Ilhan for Congress" signs
Posted inAnalysis

AIPAC broke spending records this campaign cycle — so why did it stay out of Ilhan Omar’s tight race?

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 16, 2022

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