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Chesa Boudin looks on during an election-night event as voters chose to recall him from his position as San Francisco District Attorney, June 7, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Justin Sullivan-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Chesa Boudin recall fight had prominent Jewish backers on both sides

by JTA and J. Staff June 8, 2022June 9, 2022
“Na la’amod" means “please stand” in Hebrew, and is a non-gendered way to announce a person about to receive Torah honors. (Design/JTA-Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inReligion

Non-gendered language for calling Jews to the Torah gets Conservative movement approval

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 8, 2022June 8, 2022
The trip, which included two participants who were raised in the Bahá’í religion, included a visit to the Bahá’í Gardens in Haifa. (Photo/Courtesy JCRC)
Posted inNews

JCRC trip gives Berkeley mayor and other Bay Area officials a 360 look at Israel

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene June 7, 2022June 8, 2022
In a 2009 photo, a yoetzet halachah, or Jewish legal counselor, answers a hotline for women with questions relating to Jewish laws on sex and intimacy. (Photo/Courtesy Nishmat)
Posted inNews

In a first, Israeli government to pay Orthodox women to advise on Jewish law

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 7, 2022
A JewBelong billboard in the East Bay
Posted inBay Area

Who is paying for these ‘JewBelong’ bacon billboards in the East Bay?

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss June 6, 2022June 6, 2022
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, D.C., on March 26, 2019. (Photo/Forward-Andrew Harrer-Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

Why are AIPAC and J Street endorsing the same candidates?

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld, Jacob Kornbluh and Forward June 6, 2022June 6, 2022
Rabbi Menachem Creditor (center) gathers with other faith leaders on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to protest gun violence.
(Photo/Courtesy Rabbi Creditor)
Posted inBay Area

Rabbis condemn gun violence as local post-Uvalde protests are planned

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss June 6, 2022June 6, 2022
Downtown Chicago, where Morningstar’s headquarters is located, became the site of pro-Palestinian protests, featuring calls to boycott Israel, during last May’s fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas in Gaza. (Photo/JTA-Jacek Boczarski-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Financial firm Morningstar admits to errors on Israel in bid to quell boycott controversy

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA June 6, 2022
A student looks at an unrolled Torah at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School. (Photo/file)
Posted inEducation

‘It was all my kids wanted to talk about’: How Bay Area Jewish schools handled Uvalde tragedy

by Dan Pine June 3, 2022June 7, 2022
A streaming Shabbat service in Minnesota got explicit when a couple engaged in sexual activity during a bat mitzvah. (JTA illustration)
Posted inU.S.

Couple’s Shabbat Zoom sex stream raises eyebrows — and renews questions about online services

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 3, 2022

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