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Rabbi James Brandt
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Roth’s ‘Plot’; a great cantor; dear leaders, save East Bay Jewish life!

by J. Readers September 6, 2018September 12, 2018
Sign at the entrance to Camp Tawonga (Photo/file)
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More voices of Jews of color! Church music is cool! Our Torah column is offensive! Etc!

by J. Readers August 24, 2018August 24, 2018
Rabbi Sydney Mintz (center) of Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco marches with other faith leaders at a protest in San Diego on July 2. (Photo/Ellen Fleishhacker)
Posted inLetters

Letters: Not the Israel I love; Stanford RA got off easy; ICE protests go too far

by J. Readers August 10, 2018August 10, 2018
A sign reads "Where are the children?" at an anti-ICE rally in Chicago, June 5, 2018. (Photo/Flickr-Charles Edward Miller CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Border protests are disingenuous; astrology column is bunk; and other letters

by J. Readers July 30, 2018July 30, 2018
Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 10 (Photo/Chip Somodevilla-Getty Images)
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Save our day schools; communism’s moral heirs; travel ban security angle

by J. Readers July 13, 2018
Harvey Milk at Castro Camera in the mid-1970s (Photo/Courtesy S.F. Public Library)
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Horrors on the border; Harvey Milk, frat bro; kudos to CJM

by J. Readers July 2, 2018July 2, 2018
Richard Benjamin, right, as Alexander Portnoy in a 1972 film adaptation of "Portnoy's Complaint." Lee Grant, on left, played Portnoy's mother. (Photo/JTA-Warner Brothers-Getty Images)
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Israel; Israel; Chabon; Chabon; we picked the wrong Roth photo

by J. Readers June 20, 2018
People running from tear gas at the border fence with Israel in Gaza City, May 15, 2018 (Photo/JTA-Spencer Platt-Getty Images)
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We’re wrong about Gaza; Arthur Waskow is wrong about Ruth; etc.

by J. Readers June 1, 2018May 31, 2018
From left: Mubariz Gurbanli, chairman of the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations of Azerbaijan; Milikh Yevdayev, president of the Religious Community of the Mountain Jews of Baku; Elnur Afandiyev, archpriest of the Baku Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church. (Photo/Courtesy AJC)
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No oppression in Azerbaijan? Hardly!

Molly Freeman by Molly Freeman May 30, 2018
When White Nationalist Senate candidate Patrick Little was kicked out of the California GOP convention May 5, 2018, he was captured on video outside the convention stomping and spitting on an Israeli flag.
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Our readers tell us why we’re wrong about Gaza *and* Patrick Little

by J. Readers May 18, 2018

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