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Rabbi Jason Rodich at the entrance to Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, which has long used metal detectors and unarmed guards to screen people coming into the building. (Photo/Sue Barnett)
Posted inNews

Federal funds OK’d to protect Bay Area houses of worship

by Gabriel Greschler December 9, 2020December 10, 2020
Darrell Blocker attends the Mosaic Federation Gala Against Human Slavery in New York City, Sept. 10, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Taylor Hill-Getty Images for Mosaic Federation)
Posted inUncategorized

Darrell Blocker, who could lead Biden’s CIA, is a Black Jew known as a ‘spy whisperer’

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 9, 2020December 9, 2020
Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy in Beverly Hills. (Photo/Louis Keen)
Posted inEducation

Los Angeles Jewish schools won the right to reopen. Then Covid struck again.

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward December 8, 2020December 8, 2020
Dr. Rochelle Walensky speaks in Wilmington after President-elect Joe Biden announced his team tasked with dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, Dec. 8, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Jim Watson-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Biden names Dr. Rochelle Walensky, infectious disease expert and Harvard professor, to head CDC

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 8, 2020December 8, 2020
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, seen delivering remarks in 2017, asked why descendants of German Jews should be forced to seek remedies in Germany in the first place. (Photo/JTA-Chip Somodevilla-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Trump administration wants Holocaust restitution cases heard outside US. The Supreme Court seems skeptical.

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 8, 2020December 8, 2020
Kelly Loeffler and Rev. Raphael Warnock met in a debate in Atlanta, Dec. 6 2020. (Screenshot from C-Span)
Posted inNews

Georgia Senate candidates exchange accusations of antisemitism and white supremacy

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 7, 2020
(From left)) Rabbi Levi Shemtov, National Economic Director Gary Cohn and Rabbi Abraham Shemtov light the "National Menorah" on the Ellipse near the White House, on Dec. 12, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Al Drago-Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

Jared and Ivanka’s rabbi, Chabad’s top man in DC, is optimistic about the coming transition

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 7, 2020December 7, 2020
Youth Spirit's Tiny House Village in Oakland will begin housing homeless youth in January 2021. (Photo/Daniel Arauz)
Posted inUncategorized

Tiny colorful houses for homeless Oakland youth almost ready

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, seen at a news conference in July 2020, is the incoming chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. (Photo/JTA-Tom Williams-CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Pro-Israel centrists defeat progressives in bids to chair key House committees

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
Chabad in Houston usually drops pieces of gelt from a helicopter, but social distancing derailed that event this year. (Photo/JTA-Chabad of Uptown)
Posted inU.S.

Across Texas, the show of outdoor Hanukkah festivities must go on

by Jeff Siegel and JTA December 4, 2020

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