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A Mother's Day celebration for Afghan families hosted by JFCS East Bay in 2011. (Courtesy JFCS East Bay)
Posted inBay Area

‘We’re picking up people every day’: Jewish orgs scramble to assist Afghan refugees arriving in Bay Area

by Gabriel Greschler August 20, 2021
(Illustration/JTA-Avishek Das-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Anti-Defamation League calls on Twitter to remove Taliban accounts

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 20, 2021
The synagogue of Guantanamo, Cuba, on the second floor of the Mizrahi household, on the eve of the community's 90th anniversary celebration (Photo/Laura Paull)
Posted inNews

Local fundraising event to aid Cuban Jews

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett August 20, 2021August 21, 2021
Zebulon Simantov reads a prayer book before celebrating Rosh Hashanah in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 18, 2009. (Photo/JTA-Paula Bronstein-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

What we know about Zebulon Simantov, Afghanistan’s last Jew — he still won’t leave the country (or divorce his wife)

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 19, 2021
Afghans at the Kabul airport on Aug. 16, 2021, hoping to flee as the Taliban retake the country. (Photo/JTA-AFP via Getty Images) INSET: Yasamin Taher, Afghan case manager at JFCS East Bay.
Posted inBay Area

Q&A: Insider view from an Afghan employee at JFCS — and how you can help

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 17, 2021August 17, 2021
Afghans crowd at the tarmac of the Kabul airport on Aug. 16, 2021, in an effort to flee the country as the Taliban retook control after 20 years. (Photo/JTA-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Jewish humanitarian groups step in, or try to, as crises unfold in Haiti and Afghanistan

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA August 16, 2021
Rabbi Levi Duchman talks with Sulaiman Qasim Al-Hammadi at a symbolic Passover ceremony at a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 26, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Andrea DiCenzo-Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael

The Abraham Accords just turned 1. Here’s how each of the agreements are holding up.

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 16, 2021
Stanford University students in Jerusalem on a Birthright Israel trip in 2017.
Posted inNews

Citing new quarantine rules, Birthright cancels remaining summer trips to Israel

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 10, 2021August 10, 2021
Google headquarters in Mountain View. (Photo/JTA-Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inTech

Israel to serve as hub for Google’s ‘data arms race’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 9, 2021
Israel's Linoy Ashram celebrates winning the individual all-around final of the Rhythmic Gymnastics event during Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on August 7, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Lionel Bonaventure-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inSports

Gymnast Linoy Ashram wins Israel’s 3rd Olympic gold medal, over a Russian appeal

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA August 9, 2021

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