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Why California Jews must speak out on housing policy

Max Mautner by Max Mautner December 8, 2025December 9, 2025
People gather behind a California Faculty Association banner
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Coach Beam was like the best rabbis. Antisemitism in CSU faculty union.

by J. Readers November 28, 2025November 28, 2025
Demonstrators hold a FSJP banner during a protest at UC Berkeley in August 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inLocal Voice

UC Berkeley faculty’s academic boycott of Israel normalizes Jewish exclusion

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin by Tammi Rossman-Benjamin November 24, 2025November 25, 2025
J. reporter Lea Loeb (right) with her husband George and their two kids. (Courtesy)
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For my mixed Jewish-Salvadoran family, Thanksgiving is complicated

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb November 21, 2025November 21, 2025
onlookers at pro-Palestinian protest
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CSU faculty union needlessly alienates its Jewish members

Marc Dollinger by Marc Dollinger November 18, 2025November 19, 2025
Hundreds of observers pack the quad at San Francisco State University for an open negotiation session between pro-Palestinian protesters and university administrators, May 6, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inLetters

California Faculty Association got it wrong on antisemitism

by J. Readers November 17, 2025November 17, 2025
Messages like this one — “a good soldier/zionist/settler is a DEAD ONE,” painted on a sidewalk at UC Davis in 2024 — are detrimental to Jews’ mental health, says UC Davis professor Leah Hibel. (Mily Ron)
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We need a national public health response to antisemitism

Leah Hibel (Courtesy) by Leah Hibel November 12, 2025November 12, 2025
Daniel Shapiro (right) visits a Haredi school in Me'ah She'arim in 2012, when Shapiro was U.S. ambassador to Israel. (State Department)
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Haredi schools in Israel are at a historic crossroads

Rabbi Menachem Bombach is the founder of the Netzach Educational Network and a pioneer of Haredi integration in Israel. (Courtesy) by Rabbi Menachem Bombach November 6, 2025November 6, 2025
Israeli and US flags in the wind
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As left and right close in, American Jews must stand up for Israel

Benjamin Kerstein (Courtesy) by Benjamin Kerstein November 5, 2025November 5, 2025
Palestinians walk through rubble following an Israeli airstrike on the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City in northern Gaza on Oct. 9, 2023. (Wafa-APAimages via Wikimedia Commons)
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My vision for Gazan orphans needs Jewish help

Dr. David Hasan (Courtesy) by Dr. David Hasan November 4, 2025November 4, 2025

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