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Tova Ricardo was J.'s 2019 summer intern. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inFirst Person

Wandering in translation, learning to speak the language of my people

Tova Ricardo by Tova Ricardo August 12, 2019
Participants on J Street’s first ‘Let My People Know’ trip in Hebron. (Photo/Courtesy J Street)
Posted inLocal Voice

Unlike Birthright, J Street’s trip shows the toll of occupation on both sides

Ethan Wellerstein by Ethan Wellerstein August 5, 2019August 5, 2019
Posted inOpinion

A call for unified Jewish action on climate

by Jackie Garcia Mann August 5, 2019March 24, 2023
Jody Passanisi leads the middle school at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School
Posted inOpinion

At a Harvard seminar for principals, I looked inward

Jody Passanisi by Jody Passanisi July 26, 2019July 26, 2019
Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man who was in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento when he was shot and killed by police, with his wife and children. (Photo/Facebook)
Posted inLocal Voice

AB 392 must become law. My black son’s life is at stake.

Ilana Lutz by Ilana Lutz July 16, 2019July 15, 2019
The late Chabad rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in Brooklyn, May 1987 (Photo/Wikimedia CC BY 3.0)
Posted inOpinion

The Chabad Rebbe died 25 years ago, but his impact lives on across all Jewish denominations

by Sue Fishkoff July 15, 2019July 15, 2019
A Jewish attendee of the California Democratic Party's state convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, May 31, 2019 (Photo/Dan Pine)
Posted inLocal Voice

California Democrats need to stop demonizing Israel

David Kadosh by David Kadosh July 13, 2019July 11, 2019
The line for a San Francisco Jewish Film Festival screening in 2013 (Photo/from file)
Posted inTV & Film

An ode to the line for the ladies’ room at the S.F. Jewish Film Fest

Sheri Cohen by Sheri Cohen July 9, 2019July 9, 2019
(Photo/Wikimedia-Michael Pihulic CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inLocal Voice

Being a Jew at a notoriously anti-Israel college is exhausting

by Bria Rosenberg July 8, 2019
Emily Leyfer (second from right) with other teens on a BBYO-sponsored trip to Germany
Posted inTravel

As a child of Russian Jews, I used to worry I wasn’t Jewish enough. A teen trip to Germany changed my mind.

Emily Leyfer by Emily Leyfer July 5, 2019July 8, 2019

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