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Anat Balint is the new coordinator of the Jewish Studies Program at San Jose State University. (Photo/Eyal Tueg)
Posted inEducation

New Jewish studies head at San Jose State embraces ‘culture of debate’

by Dan Pine September 3, 2020
People wear face masks in Times Square in New York City, March 3, 2020, after the city confirmed cases of the rapidly spreading coronavirus. (Photo/JTA-Eduardo Munoz-VIEWpress via Getty Images)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Jewish Federations of North America raising $54 million for Covid fund

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA September 3, 2020September 3, 2020
Dani Rotstein, pointing, explains to German tourists about a church that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Feb. 11, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inWorld

It ‘shows a great resilience’: Despite Covid, synagogues across Europe will still open to non-Jews for Days of Jewish Culture series

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 2, 2020September 2, 2020
From the poster for the new Israeli TV docuseries "Iron Dome."
Posted inTV

‘Iron Dome’ docuseries shows political and personal cost of a secure Israel

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz September 2, 2020September 2, 2020
Santa Clara University is one of nine Northern California universities that benefit from the Koret Foundation's latest round of higher education grants. (Photo/Wikimedia-BrokenSphere CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inEducation

Koret Foundation grants $10 million more to nine Bay Area universities

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 2, 2020
Max Fried pitches in a game for the Atlanta Braves against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Aug. 9, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Kyle Ross-Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Posted inSports

Max Fried idolizes Sandy Koufax — and this year he’s pitching like him

Marc Brodsky by Marc Brodsky and JTA September 2, 2020
Jose Medina presenting AB331 to the California Assembly Education Committee in March 2019. Medina is the author of the bill, which would make ethnic studies a high school requirement, and approved the Jewish caucus' "guardrail" additions to the bill. (Photo/Twitter-Jose Medina)
Posted inCalifornia

Jewish caucus inserts anti-bias ‘guardrails’ into California ethnic studies law

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman September 1, 2020September 2, 2020
Clockwise, from top left: Daniel Gros, a Jewish attorney in Vienna advising Jews on how to apply for Austrian citizenship; and Elana Dunn-Rennert, Paul Burg and Caroline Wellbery, who are all applying. (JTA/Courtesy Gros, Dunn-Rennert, Burg and Wellbery)
Posted inWorld

‘This will completely change Jewish life in Austria’: Thousands of Jews around the world expected to apply for Austrian citizenship through new rules

by Toby Axelrod and JTA September 1, 2020September 1, 2020
Offir Gutelzon (in the red bandana) helps organize the crowd at an anti-Benjamin Netanyahu protest at Crissy Field in San Francisco, Aug. 29, 2020. (Photo/Miri Ekshtein Prager)
Posted inNews

‘We won’t stop until Bibi resigns’: Bay Area Israelis join global protest

by Sue Fishkoff September 1, 2020
President Donald Trump at a White House roundtable discussion with African-American supporters, June 10, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Doug Mills-Pool-Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

Trump campaign has accepted at least $2,000 over 3 years from neo-Nazi leader

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA September 1, 2020September 1, 2020

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