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A farmworker tends a greenhouse in Half Moon Bay (Courtesy Ayudando Latinos A Soñar)
Posted inLocal Voice

We can still rise above our own pain to help Bay Area farmworkers in need

Jamie Beckett by Jamie Beckett September 23, 2024September 23, 2024
A resident of the West Bank village of Susiya returns to the ruins of the town after a raid by Israeli settlers in 2021. (Courtesy Charles Rothschild)
Posted inLocal Voice

As a liberal Zionist, I don’t see Israel living up to its founding aspirations

Charles Rothschild by Charles Rothschild September 13, 2024September 13, 2024
The level of antisemitism in the district is “quite rampant,” parent Mara Kolesas told the Berkeley Unified School District board on Nov. 1, 2023. (Screenshot)
Posted inLocal Voice

We can all help to better protect Bay Area Jewish kids at school this year

by Molly Jozer September 10, 2024September 10, 2024
a group of people, many wearing keffiyehs, sit and stand on the pavement together
Posted inLocal Voice

Everyone is talking about Palestinians this election cycle. No one is actually listening to us.

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib by Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib September 9, 2024September 9, 2024
People embrace
Posted inLocal Voice

Why Hersh’s death hit all of us so hard: He represented hope

Chanan Tigay by Chanan Tigay September 6, 2024September 6, 2024
Rachel Goldberg, the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, sits next to a poster of her son on May 29, 2024. (Ahikam Seri/AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inLocal Voice

From Rachel Goldberg, we heard the piercing cry of Jewish motherhood

Meg Keene (Courtesy) by Meg Keene September 5, 2024September 6, 2024
a smiling bearded man takes a selfie with an older woman in pink-tinted sunglasses
Posted inFirst Person

I can’t get anything I want at Alice’s restaurant — and I can live with that

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz by Rabbi Zac Kamenetz August 29, 2024August 29, 2024
a grid of heads as in a Zoom meeting
Posted inLocal Voice

In the U.S. and Israel, narcissistic leaders put our lives in danger

David Meyers by David Meyers August 28, 2024August 28, 2024
Signs at a short-lived UCSF pro-Palestinian encampment that was dismantled in May of 2024. (Instagram @ucsf4palestine)
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Israel bias at the doctor’s office; Appreciating James Tissot; Etc.

by J. Readers August 23, 2024August 23, 2024
They stand at a podium on a stage, both wearing a piece of tape on their shirt with number 320 on it
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Watch American-Israeli hostage family Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin bring the DNC to tears

by Forward August 22, 2024September 2, 2024

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