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Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro speaks during a conference of Israeli conservatives in Tel Aviv, July 20, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Nadav Cohen Jonathan)
Posted inNews

In first Israel talk, Ben Shapiro tells conservatives to import America’s free market, not its ‘woke culture’

by Deborah Danan and JTA July 22, 2022
(From left) Shoshana Fendel, Gabie Berliner Yossi Fendel and Lord Mayor of Hanover Belit Onay sign a document formally donating a family cabinet (right, behind Onay) stolen by the Nazis back to the city of Hanover to be used for educational purposes.
(Photo/Courtesy City of Hanover)
Posted inNews

Bay Area family visits Germany to reclaim, then donate, Nazi-looted heirloom

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 21, 2022
Rabbi Shaul Horowitz (right) meets a Jewish refugee attending a service at the synagogue of Vinnytsia in June 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Shaul Horowitz)
Posted inWorld

How Russia’s war is undoing 30 years of Jewish community building in Ukraine

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA July 21, 2022
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival co-directors Deborah Kaufman and Janis Plotkin in 1991 on the balcony of the Castro Theatre. (Photo/File)
Posted inColumns

Tracing the growth of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival from 1980 to 2022

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 21, 2022July 21, 2022
Fun with water balloons at Maccabi Sports Camp during summer 2019. (Courtesy JCC Maccabi Sports Camp)
Posted inBay Area

Covid resurgence hits local Jewish summer camps hard, closing one early

by Dan Pine July 20, 2022
Tina Sacks is an assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley.
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: Tina Sacks on ancestral trauma and feeling ‘Jewish enough’

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene July 20, 2022
Friendship Circle volunteers cut a ribbon to begin WalkWithFC in 2019. (Photo/Adam Turgeman Tolentino)
Posted inBay Area

Bay Area Friendship Circle ready for ‘ninja’ walkathon 

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene July 20, 2022
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker (right) speaks with Ben Breakstone, engagement and media coordinator, at Temple Emanuel in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, July 13, 2022. (Photo/JTA-RNS-Yonat Shimron)
Posted inU.S.

At new pulpit, ‘Rabbi Charlie’ balances Colleyville fame with one-to-one connection

Yonat Shimron by Yonat Shimron and RNS July 20, 2022July 20, 2022
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Swastikas etched on cars in Berkeley probed as hate crime

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene July 19, 2022
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, (left) chats with Mansour Abbas, head of the conservative Islamic Ra'am party during a special session to vote on a new government, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 13, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Emmanuel Dunand-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inAnalysis

Israel’s big ‘experiment’: Did a year of coalition partnership bring Jews and Arabs any closer?

Noga Tarnopolsky by Noga Tarnopolsky and JTA July 19, 2022July 19, 2022

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