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Architectural rendering of building and parking lot
Posted inNews

Pleasanton ‘excited’ for Chabad rebuild of fire-damaged center

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 30, 2021April 30, 2021
Hundreds of Orthodox Jews mourn at the funeral of Yehuda Lev Lubin, one of 45 victims from the Mount Meron Lag B'Omer stampede, April 30, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Olivier Fitoussi-Flash90)
Posted inNews

‘Our dancing has turned into mourning’: For Israeli Orthodox Jews, a night of celebration and healing turns to unspeakable tragedy

Ben Sales by Ben Sales April 30, 2021April 30, 2021
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will review 12 artworks in its collection for possible links to Nazi looting. (Graphic/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inCulture

Investigation: San Francisco museums may hold Nazi-looted art

by Gabriel Greschler April 30, 2021May 7, 2021
Left: This 18th-century porcelain figurine of the commedia dell'arte character Capitan Spaventa owned by the Kaumheimers and lost for 64 years can be seen at the Legion of Honor. (Photo/Courtesy Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco); Right:
Janet Reves with her mom, Margaret Kaplan, in 2018.
Posted inCulture

S.F. family’s Nazi-looted porcelain figurines returned, gifted to Legion of Honor

by Gabriel Greschler April 30, 2021April 29, 2021
Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis will be the spiritual leader of Shirat Hatamar, an Orthodox synagogue in the West Bank settlement of Efrat. (Screenshot/JTA)
Posted inNews

For the first time, a woman will lead an Israeli Orthodox synagogue

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 29, 2021
An Israeli checkpoint is seen during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan as Covid-19 measures continue in the West Bank city of Hebron, April 20, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Issam Rimawi-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Human Rights Watch says Israel has crossed ‘apartheid’ threshold

by Ron Kampeas and JTA April 29, 2021
Paziyah Baht Israel (far left), a member of the African Hebrew Israelites' renowned New Jerusalem Fire Choir, is one of dozens of members of the community to receive surprise deportation notices from the Israeli government. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
Posted inAnalysis

Israel’s new call to deport African Hebrew Israelites reopens old wounds

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 28, 2021December 10, 2021
Sculptor Chas Fagan, (left) holds a clay model of a bust of Elie Wiesel and watches as stonemason Sean Callahan (right) uses medieval techniques to carve the bust into the walls of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. (Photo/JTA-National Cathedral)
Posted inNews

Elie Wiesel will be the first Jew honored with a bust at the National Cathedral in Washington

by Ron Kampeas and JTA April 28, 2021April 28, 2021
Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman is accused of sexual harassment of three women, including one who was a minor at the time.
Posted inU.S.

Reform rabbinic giant first disciplined in 2000 now accused of ‘sexually predatory’ behavior

Hannah Dreyfus by Hannah Dreyfus and Forward April 28, 2021April 28, 2021
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, sitting in the center on the left, meets with Meir Ben-Shabbat, his Israeli counterpart, facing him, at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, April 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Israeli Embassy)
Posted inNews

Israel and US consult on Iran nuclear talks

by Ron Kampeas and JTA April 28, 2021

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