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First Person

The line for a San Francisco Jewish Film Festival screening in 2013 (Photo/from file)
Posted inTV & Film

An ode to the line for the ladies’ room at the S.F. Jewish Film Fest

Sheri Cohen by Sheri Cohen July 9, 2019July 9, 2019
Emily Leyfer (second from right) with other teens on a BBYO-sponsored trip to Germany
Posted inTravel

As a child of Russian Jews, I used to worry I wasn’t Jewish enough. A teen trip to Germany changed my mind.

Emily Leyfer by Emily Leyfer July 5, 2019July 8, 2019
Officers taking a group of Central American asylum seekers into custody near McAllen, Texas, June 12, 2018. (Photo/JTA-John Moore-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

What will we tell the descendants of children detained by our government?

Donald C. Cutler by Donald C. Cutler July 2, 2019July 2, 2019
Students praying at the Jewish Herzlia school in Cape Town in the 1960s (Photo/Courtesy South African Jewish Museum)
Posted inFirst Person

Reinvigorating my Jewish soul in Cape Town

Mervyn Danker by Mervyn Danker June 24, 2019
(Photo/JTA-Lalocracio-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

I don’t want kids, but that doesn’t make me a bad Jew

by Elena Gormley June 20, 2019June 20, 2019
(JTA-Alma collage)
Posted inPride

As a queer Jew, learning Anne Frank was bisexual is a game-changer

by Yonah Bex Gerber June 12, 2019
Kids enjoying a snack at Edah, a Bay Area Jewish after-school program
Posted inOpinion

Overcoming my Jewish imposter syndrome at my kids’ after-school program

Margot Schmorak by Margot Schmorak June 11, 2019June 11, 2019
(From left) Andrea Trippen, Marlene Straus and Jacob Trippen in front of the Jewish preschool, Jewish senior housing and JCC in Cologne, Germany
Posted inUncategorized

Reunited at last — meeting the German family that saved mine

Rabbi Andrew Straus by Rabbi Andrew Straus June 10, 2019June 10, 2019
Chalk writing at San Francisco State University, Feb. 23, 2018. (Photo/Courtesy SF Hillel)
Posted inLocal Voice

I’m proud to have been a plaintiff in anti-Semitism lawsuit against SFSU

Charles Volk by Charles Volk May 29, 2019May 29, 2019
A teenager visiting the Berlin Holocaust Memorial (Photo/Julie Levine)
Posted inYom HaShoah

After years at a Jewish school, moving to a secular school has been a rude awakening

Talia Bodner by Talia Bodner May 10, 2019May 15, 2019

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