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The Maccabees depicted in a page from a 14th-century Italian illuminated manuscript.
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Hanukkah isn’t ‘woke’; Antifa dangers downplayed; BDS, BDS, BDS; etc.

by J. Readers December 18, 2020December 18, 2020
Jackson Pioneer Jewish Cemetery, established in 1857. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
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Gold Country reporting trip is a hit; Hooray for Quentin Kopp; Sore about Soros; etc.

by J. Readers December 10, 2020December 10, 2020
Students admitted to UC Berkeley under affirmative action policies implemented in the university's Educational Opportunity Program, ca. 1985. (Photo/Courtesy UC Berkeley)
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Letters of ‘no useful purpose’; JCRC was wrong on Prop. 16; Does America owe anyone?; etc.

by J. Readers November 24, 2020November 24, 2020
Midnite Bagel is one of three new bagel operations that have popped up in the Bay Area in recent months.
Posted inLetters

Overpriced bagels; Originalists want the impossible; etc.

by J. Readers November 12, 2020November 12, 2020
President Donald Trump during a break in an NBC News town hall event at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, Oct. 15, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Brendan Smialowski-AFP via Getty Images)
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State propositions, for and against; Trump, for and against; Bad mask-wearing on our cover; etc.

by J. Readers October 30, 2020
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives for President Barack Obama's State of the Union address in the Capitol, Jan. 20, 2015. (Photo/JTA-Bill Clark-CQ Roll Call-Getty Images)
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Don’t call them ‘concentration camps’; Closer look at Props. 15-17; RBG’s legacy; best bagels in the Bay

by J. Readers October 15, 2020October 15, 2020
A sign in front of Zoom headquarters in San Jose during a protest demanding that the company not host an upcoming event featuring Leila Khaled. (Photo/Facebook-Shield of David)
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S.F. State should be ashamed; Holocaust education essential; Trump thinks he’s Churchill; etc.

by J. Readers October 2, 2020October 7, 2020
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Leila Khaled at S.F. State; antisemitism in ethnic studies; forgotten psalmists; etc.

by J. Readers September 21, 2020
Two children walk through rubble near a beach in the Gaza Strip in 2017. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
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Lehmann’s departure from GTU, for and against; UAE deal, for and against; Kamala Harris, for; Hamas, against

by J. Readers September 4, 2020September 4, 2020
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Call Jew-hatred what it is; GTU controversy, for and against; stolen Yemini material at S.F. State; etc.

by J. Readers August 21, 2020

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