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Jackson Pioneer Jewish Cemetery, established in 1857. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)

Letters

Gold Country reporting trip is a hit; Sore about Soros; etc.

Gold Country memories “A road trip through Jewish Gold Country” (Nov. 25) was a fabulous article, well written and long overdue. This is not a criticism,…
By J. Readers Dec 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)

Letters

Letters of 'no useful purpose'; JCRC was wrong on Prop. 16; etc.

Jewish Dems are still MOTs This is in response to Scott Abramson’s letter (“Len was a true Trump fan,” Nov. 12) about the obituary for Leonard…
By J. Readers Nov 24, 2020
Midnite Bagel is one of three new bagel operations that have popped up in the Bay Area in recent months.

Letters

Overpriced bagels; Originalists want the impossible; etc.

Originalists want the impossible Regarding William Kolbrener’s opinion piece (“Amy Coney Barrett needs a Talmudic view of the Constitution,” Oct. 27):…
By J. Readers Nov 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)

Letters

Trump, for and against; Bad mask-wearing on our cover; etc.

Bad form on mask-wearing How could you do it?! How could you put that image on the Oct. 16 cover of J.? In a time when our health is at great risk and…
By J. Readers Oct 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)

Letters

Don't call them 'concentration camps'; RBG's legacy; etc.

Change this Holocaust term I am writing regarding your Sept. 22 article “A recent survey found young adults ignorant about the Holocaust — or did it?”…
By J. Readers Oct 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)

Letters

S.F. State should be ashamed; Trump thinks he's Churchill; etc.

Hypocrisy atop S.F. State San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney demonstrated masterful chutzpah over the Sept. 23 talk by Leila Khaled, an…
By J. Readers Oct 2, 2020
a big glass building with students walking through a lawn in front

Letters

Leila Khaled at S.F. State; antisemitism in ethnic studies; etc.

Let’s all boycott SFSU San Francisco State University has scheduled a Zoom event with Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled (“Jewish groups condemn plans for…
By J. Readers Sep 21, 2020
Two children walk through rubble near a beach in the Gaza Strip in 2017. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)

Letters

Lehmann at GTU, for and against; UAE deal, for and against; etc.

Hurrah, Kamala! The announcement of Sen. Kamala Harris as the vice presidential nominee left many across the country excited, but as a former youth…
By J. Readers Sep 4, 2020
a bald man with a short bear leans on a bookcase

Letters

Call Jew-hatred what it is; GTU controversy, for and against; etc.

It’s about hate, not a hyphen Your Aug. 6 editorial (“Dropping the hyphen: Why this publication is changing its spelling of antisemitism”) did not explain…
By J. Readers Aug 21, 2020
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