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Israelis seen at a Shavuot celebration in Kibbutz Ga'ash on June 8, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Flash90)
Posted inNews

On the kibbutz, Shavuot is a time for remembering the movement’s glory days

by Hillel Kutler and JTA June 3, 2022June 3, 2022
Gabe Kapler kneels during the playing of the National Anthem prior to a game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, July 31, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Thearon W. Henderson-Getty Images)
Posted inSports

Gabe Kapler is following in the footsteps of other Jewish activist athletes, from Hank Greenberg to Aly Raisman

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis and JTA June 3, 2022
Rabbi Eric Wiess, CEO of the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center, speaking at a BAHJC event in 2015. (Photo/Courtesy Weiss)
Posted inBay Area

Bay Area Jewish Healing Center to shut down after 31 years

by Dan Pine June 2, 2022April 11, 2025
Participants at Camp Nai Nai Nai West share a light moment together at Camp Newman in Santa Rosa, May 2022. (Photo/JTA-Yoav Magid)
Posted inSPONSORED CONTENT

‘It’s my happy place’: Jewish camp experience for adults brings out the child in everyone

by Caroline Kessler and JTA June 2, 2022June 2, 2022
Eric Salitsky at the Cadet Interfaith Center on the campus of West Point, which was one of the stops on his 2019 tour of multifaith spaces in North America and Europe. (Photo/Tamara Cohen)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish architect Eric Salitsky’s memorial gifts benefit Oakland ‘Designing Justice’ firm

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 2, 2022May 14, 2024
Posted inNews

Boycott advocates claim victory as General Mills divests its Israeli dough operation

by Andrew Lapin and JTA June 2, 2022
View of Windsor in Sonoma County.
(Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBay Area

Antisemitic flyers in baggies dropped in Sonoma County town

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene June 2, 2022June 2, 2022
Joc Pederson shows reporters the GIF he sent to a fantasy football group chat, which incensed Tommy Pham.
Posted inSports

Jewish Giant Joc Pederson gets slapped by an opposing player — over fantasy football

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward June 1, 2022June 1, 2022
a black man in a suit jacket speaks on stage
Posted inPolitics

New super PAC aims at electing pro-Israel Black Democrats

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 1, 2022
Ken Kramarz, who first came to Camp Tawonga in 1981, died on May 28.
(Photo/Laura Turbow)
Posted inObituaries

Longtime Tawonga director Ken Kramarz dies at 69

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 1, 2022June 15, 2022

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