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(From left) Leili Davari, Jonathan Matus, Gilad Shamri, Alona Metz, Misha Safyan, Angel Alvarez-Mapp and Courtney Cardin. (Photo/Snir Kazir)
Posted inBay Area, Israel, News

Four from Bay Area at annual Israel gathering for people improving the world through ‘innovation’

Tova Ricardo by Tova Ricardo July 15, 2019October 2, 2019
Rafi Peretz, Israel’s Education Minister and chairman of the Jewish Home Party, speaks at a party meeting on June 19, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Yehuda Haim-Flash90)
Posted inIsrael

Israel’s education minister under fire for supporting gay conversion therapy

Marcy Oster by JTA and Marcy Oster July 15, 2019July 15, 2019
Holocaust survivor Ben Stern spoke at a protest in front of the San Francisco ICE office, July 12, 2019 (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inBay Area

Emotional testimony from survivors at San Francisco ICE protest

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman July 12, 2019July 15, 2019
three dogs roll around in the grass playing
Posted inIsrael, News

All dogs are bad and their owners ‘accursed,’ say Israeli rabbis

by JTA July 12, 2019
Ross Farca, 23, of Concord is fighting a restraining order preventing him from handling guns after being arrested for threatening to kill Jews online.
Posted inNews

Hearing postponed for East Bay man arrested for violent threats against Jews

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman July 12, 2019
Bay Area philanthropist Tad Taube is most proud of his role in the Jewish rebirth of Poland. (Photo/Norm Levin)
Posted inTrailblazers

Tad Taube, proud philanthropist and builder of Jewish life in Poland

by Liz Harris July 12, 2019September 13, 2025
Dr. Sara Imershein in the abortion clinic where she works in Falls Church, Va., July 2, 2019 (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inUncategorized

This doctor provides abortions and brit milahs. She says her Jewish values drive both practices.

by JTA and Ron Kampeas July 11, 2019July 11, 2019
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives to present the 2018 International Religious Freedom Report at the State Department in Washington, DC, on June 21, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Nicholas Kamm-AFP)
Posted inUncategorized

Pompeo tells Christian Zionists it’s easy for Israeli Jews to convert to Christianity

by JTA and Ron Kampeas July 10, 2019July 10, 2019
William Scott Planer (Photo/Facebook)
Posted inNews

Neo-Nazi sentenced in 2016 state Capitol altercation

by Dan Pine July 10, 2019
SB 652, known as the “mezuzah bill,” would bar California landlords and condo associations from prohibiting “the display of religious items,” such as mezuzahs, of a certain size on doors and doorframes. (Photo/Wikimedia-00dahc)
Posted inBay Area

‘Inscribe them on your doorposts’: California lawmakers pass ‘mezuzah bill’

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman July 10, 2019August 13, 2019

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