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Chai Preschool Director Esty Marcus sits with children at Chai Preschool in San Mateo on May 9, 2025, the day she was given the EarlyJ Impact Award. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inEducation

Preschool director who ‘values excellence’ wins EarlyJ’s first award

Valerie Demicheva by Valerie Demicheva May 13, 2025May 14, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a model of Air Force One between them, during a meeting at White House, April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

‘Honey, he’s had enough of you’: Trump’s Middle East moves appear to sideline Israel

Ben Sales by Ben Sales May 12, 2025May 12, 2025
A crowd stands vigil awaiting the release of Edan Alexander, a local son and Hamas captive, in Tenafly, New Jersey, May 12, 2025. (Danielle Elkins)
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In N.J., celebration marks release of local son Edan Alexander from Gaza

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer May 12, 2025May 12, 2025
Pajaro Valley Unified School District board member Gabriel Medina (right) talks to Jewish attendees of a school board meeting about ethnic studies, April 16, 2025. (Screenshot via YouTube/Pajaro Valley Unified School District)
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Central Coast school board rejects Holocaust education proposal

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 9, 2025May 10, 2025
A Day of the Dead altar for Palestinian children killed in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war was on display in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in fall 2024. (Courtesy Shlomit and Yigal Blum)
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Group of SJSU faculty lose fight over Day of the Dead altar they called a modern ‘blood libel’

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 9, 2025May 11, 2025
Bay Area Panthers Team President David Eisenberg. (Courtesy of Bay Area Panthers)
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‘Constant action’: Former 49ers exec heads indoors with Bay Area Panthers

Gabe Fisher by Gabe Fisher May 8, 2025May 9, 2025
Pope Leo XIV addresses the world following his election. (Getty Images)
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Leo XIV, first American pope, studied under a leader in Jewish-Catholic relations

Ben Sales by Ben Sales May 8, 2025May 8, 2025
Student activists, many wearing kaffiyehs, attend a public negotiation session between San Francisco State University administrators and students who demand that the university divest from companies that do business with Israel on May 6, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Cal State says it won’t divest from Israel over student hunger strike

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 7, 2025May 7, 2025
JPAC executive director David Bocarsly addresses attendees of the JPAC summit at the Sheraton Grand hotel in Sacramento on May 5, 2025. (Camden Hosea-Small/JPAC)
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Ethnic studies dominates Jewish lobbying summit in Sacramento

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi May 7, 2025May 7, 2025
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Posted inU.S.

‘I love Jesus Christ,’ Ben & Jerry’s co-founder tells Tucker Carlson

Ben Sales by Ben Sales May 7, 2025May 7, 2025

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