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Graffiti outside the public bathroom in Blue Rock Springs Park in Vallejo, June 2020. (Photo/File)
Posted inBay Area

Swastika, racist graffiti in Vallejo being investigated as hate crime

by Gabriel Greschler June 25, 2020June 29, 2020
Parts of the Addison-Penzak JCC in Los Gatos are back open, but visitors must have their temperature checked. (Photo/Lael Gray)
Posted inNews

Los Gatos JCC’s soft reopening: Pool and summer camp are back, programs stay online

by Dan Pine June 25, 2020June 26, 2020
John Bolton speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition spring leadership meeting in Las Vegas, March 29, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Ethan Miller-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

As his feud with Trump erupts, John Bolton goes from pro-Israel hero to ‘John who?’

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 25, 2020June 25, 2020
UC Berkeley students and faculty record an episode of the “Israel and Jewish Identity in the Age of Covid” podcast.
(Photo/Maya Shemtov)
Posted inBay Area

New podcast looks at Israel and Jewish identity in ‘Age of Covid’

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman June 25, 2020June 26, 2020
Jyl Jurman is retiring as CEO of the Silicon Valley Jewish Federation, which is merging with the Addison Penzak JCC; both are located at the Levy Family Campus in Los Gatos (right).
Posted inNews

Silicon Valley Federation in talks to merge with Los Gatos JCC as longtime CEO retires

by Dan Pine June 24, 2020June 25, 2020
JCC of the East Bay in Berkeley. (Photo/File)
Posted inBay Area

‘We’re prepared’: East Bay JCC’s next steps depend on public schools reopening

by Gabriel Greschler June 24, 2020June 25, 2020
Satya Zamudio, 15, is urging Oakland's school board to eliminate its police force. (Photo/Rucha Chitnis)
Posted inEducation

Jewish youth urge Oakland school district to eliminate school police

by Gabriel Greschler June 24, 2020June 25, 2020
A Judensau sculpture on display on the outer wall of the town church of St. Marien in Wittenberg, Germany, Feb. 4, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Hendrik Schmidt-Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

In Germany, several churches have anti-Semitic sculptures from the Middle Ages. Can one man get them taken down?

by Toby Axelrod and JTA June 24, 2020June 24, 2020
Congregants and guests crowd into Congregation Sherith Israel’s sanctuary in 1945 to celebrate the founding of the United Nations. (Photo/Courtesy Sherith Israel)
Posted inNews

Events to salute Jewish role in U.N.’s birth in San Francisco 75 years ago

by Dan Pine June 24, 2020June 25, 2020
Nefesh B’Nefesh co-founders Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart, and Yoav Galant, minister of Aliyah and Integration, with 41 future Lone Soldiers who arrived on a flight of 242 new immigrants from North America, Aug. 14, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Nefesh b'Nefesh-Shahar Azran)
Posted inIsrael

Israel immigration group Nefesh B’Nefesh reports highest number of applications since its founding

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA June 24, 2020

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