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Students at the Yom Rishon School listen to the story of Passover. (Photo/Courtesy Yom Rishon)
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We got story of Yom Rishon School wrong; Dogs and God; Etc.

by J. Readers September 30, 2021
Sigismund Danielewicz, seen here ca. 1884, was a Jewish union organizer representing seamen and barbers. (Photo/Courtesy UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library)
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‘Hitler’ review missed point; Recall was a joke; Vile exit from Afghanistan; etc.

by J. Readers September 20, 2021
The Hebrew Cemetery in Marysville takes up a corner of the city cemetery, located right off Highway 70. The gate is originally from a Jewish cemetery in San Francisco. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
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Ben & Jerry’s, for and against; Leave Bibi alone; Caring for Jewish cemeteries; etc.

by J. Readers September 3, 2021
Members of the Los Angeles teachers' union celebrate the end of a strike, Jan. 22, 2019. (Photo/Wikimedia-Mike Chickey)
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L.A. teacher’s union is misguided; Expose anti-Israel professors; People are too stupid to use Facebook; etc.

by J. Readers August 20, 2021August 19, 2021
A JewBelong sign in downtown San Francisco at First Street and Market Street. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
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Jews already belong; Ben & Jerry are right; let Artem marry; etc.

by J. Readers August 5, 2021August 5, 2021
Ben & Jerry's co-founders Jerry Greenfield (left) and Ben Cohen serve ice cream following a press conference announcing a new flavor in Washington, D.C., Sept. 3, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Win McNamee-Getty Images)
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Illegal stand on BDS; Freeze out Ben & Jerry’s; Critical race theory is futile; etc.

by J. Readers July 22, 2021July 22, 2021
Redwood High School in Larkspur. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
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Saving Lerhaus’ mission; Hold the bacon; Don’t cheer ethnic studies in Marin; etc.

by J. Readers July 9, 2021July 12, 2021
Jehon Grist teaching Hebrew in the early days of Lehrhaus Judaica, now know as HaMaqom | The Place, which has announced it will be shutting its doors for good at the end of its summer term. (Photo/File)
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Can HaMaqom be saved?; Stay out of it, teachers’ union; etc.

by J. Readers June 25, 2021June 25, 2021
Protesters at the Port of Oakland on June 4, 2021. "From the river to the sea" is generally understood as a call for the dissolution of the state of Israel.  (Photo/Brooke Anderson)
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BDS lesson for teachers; We don’t write enough about ‘Israel haters’; etc.

by J. Readers June 11, 2021
three middle-aged women walk down a sidewalk holding signs in hebrew and arabic
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Refusing to be enemies; Uninformed at Google; Jews of no religion; Sheikh Jarrah ‘squatters’; etc.

by J. Readers June 2, 2021June 2, 2021

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