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The Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee's 'Apartheid Wall' in Harvard Yard during Israeli Apartheid Week in 2022. (Photo/RNS-Courtesy PSC
Posted inU.S.

Doxxing on campus: How BDS tensions at Harvard became personal

by Haley Barker and RNS July 11, 2022
Nina Gordon-Kirsch in front of aqueducts in Antioch, which she passed on July 5, a week into her walk.
Posted inFilm

Jewish ‘water warrior’ walks 200 miles to trace the East Bay’s water source

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene July 11, 2022July 19, 2022
A man leaves the offices of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, which does not recognize non-Orthodox conversions, posing problems for Reform and Conservative converts who want to marry in Israel. (Photo/JTA-Flash90)
Posted inNews

In a blow to Israel’s religious establishment, Israeli court rules that online Utah marriages must be honored

by Ron Kampeas and JTA July 11, 2022July 11, 2022
Claude and Beverly Cassirer pose in front of a replica of the painting the Nazis seized from his grandmother. Claude died in 2010. (Photo/JTA-Allen J. Schaben-Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

California AG: Nazi-looted art should be returned to survivor’s descendants

by Emma Goss July 8, 2022July 8, 2022
Security guards confront members of the Women of the Wall movement during Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Olivier Fitoussi-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Harassment at a Western Wall bar mitzvah renews the fight over prayer spaces in Israel

by Andrew Lapin and JTA July 8, 2022July 8, 2022
Libs of TikTok, a Twitter account popular in the right-wing political media space, named Camp Ramah in California in a tweet, July 6, 2022. Background: The entrance to Ramah in Ojai. (Photo/JTA-Stephen Osman-Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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A Jewish camp is reassuring families amid a ‘social media offensive’ over its inclusion of trans children

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA July 8, 2022
J. Editor Sue Fishkoff at her office in downtown San Francisco in 2018. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
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Retiring J. editor Sue Fishkoff: ‘It’s been a wonderful ride’

by Sue Fishkoff July 7, 2022July 7, 2022
Rabbi Gershon Albert of Oakland's Beth Jacob Congregation wrote the tune for a new single from the hipster Hasid duo Zusha.
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New single from hipster Hasid band Zusha features tune by Oakland’s Rabbi Gershon Albert

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky July 7, 2022July 7, 2022
A memorial for the victims of the Highland Park mass shooting. (Photo/Forward-Jim Vondruska-Getty Images)
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How the Highland Park shooter destroyed a Russian Jewish family’s American dream and orphaned a 2-year-old

by Rudy Malcom and Forward July 7, 2022
A makeshift memorial for victims of the 4th of July mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. (Photo/Forward-MAX HERMAN-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

‘The nicest person I’ve ever met’: Friends and family remember Katherine Goldstein, killed in Highland Park shooting

by Jordan Greene and Forward July 7, 2022July 7, 2022

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