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The Luzzatto High Holiday Machzor contains many of the same prayers that Jews recite today, including the Kaddish. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Sotheby's)
Posted inReligion

This 700-year-old Rosh Hashanah prayerbook is going on auction for $4 million

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA September 5, 2021
Sigismund Danielewicz, seen here ca. 1884, was a Jewish union organizer representing seamen and barbers. (Photo/Courtesy UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library)
Posted inHolidays

This S.F. Jew stood up to anti-Asian hate in 1885 — and got booed

by Gabriel Greschler September 5, 2021January 27, 2022
Nathan Berro Krugman, a U.S. Forest Service forest technician, fighting the Caldor Fire last month.
Posted inNorthern California

Q&A: Meet a Jewish firefighter who battled the Caldor Fire

by Gabriel Greschler September 3, 2021January 23, 2025
Joc Pederson, the L.A. Dodgers’ All-Star outfielder and 2010 graduate of Palo Alto High School, was inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California in 2019. (Photo/File)
Posted inSports

Bay Area athletes sought for Jewish scholarship awards

by J. Staff September 3, 2021September 3, 2021
Ali Soufan, seen in 2018, had monitored al-Qaida for the FBI both before the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 and afterward. (Photo/JTA-Tommaso Boddi-Getty Images for Hulu)
Posted inNews

After 9/11, the U.S. helped thwart a major al-Qaeda attack in Israel, ex-FBI agent says

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 3, 2021September 3, 2021
A choir performs during the 2018 graduation for the Academy for Jewish Religion California. (Photo/Courtesy Academy for Jewish Religion California)
Posted inCalifornia

This L.A. rabbinical school is moving into a Catholic university

Yonat Shimron by Yonat Shimron and RNS September 3, 2021September 8, 2021
A protester holds a yellow star reading "Not Vaccinated = Jew" as protesters take part in a demonstration in Milan, Italy, July 24, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Miguel Medina-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

An anti-vaxxer in Montreal said he would stop wearing a yellow star. He still thinks vaccine mandates are like the Holocaust.

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA September 2, 2021
EPACENTER, a new youth creative development center in East Palo Alto funded by the John & Marcia Goldman Foundation. (Photo/Chris Bagley)
Posted inCulture

Goldmans fund gleaming new arts center for East Palo Alto youth

by Liz Harris September 2, 2021
Villagers and Israeli Defense Forces soldiers in Iqrit on Nov. 3, 1948. (Photo/RNS via the Israeli Government Press Office)
Posted inNews

Christian residents of two Israeli ghost towns renew bid to go home

by Botrus Mansour and RNS September 2, 2021
A man holds a certificate acknowledging his work for Americans (center) as hundreds of people gather outside the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 17, 2021.  (Photo/RNS-AP)
Posted inBay Area

‘How are we going to survive?’ Jewish forum looks to support Afghan refugees

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 2, 2021

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