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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?

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

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
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

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