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Officers taking a group of Central American asylum seekers into custody near McAllen, Texas, June 12, 2018. (Photo/JTA-John Moore-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

World Refugee Day is June 20. This year, more than ever, it’s time to act.

Rabbi Lee Bycel by Rabbi Lee Bycel June 18, 2018June 19, 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)
Posted inLocal Voice

On Father’s Day, I thought of fathers whose children are taken by ICE

by David Waksberg June 18, 2018June 18, 2018
Michael Chabon at home in 2016 (Photo/Cathleen Maclearie)
Posted inLocal Voice

On Michael Chabon and preaching to the wrong choir

by Tom Herz June 14, 2018
bail bonds storefront lit in eerie red neon
Posted inLocal Voice

Cash bail is modern-day bondage. Let’s end it in California.

Lyssa Jaye by Lyssa Jaye June 12, 2018June 12, 2018
poverty poor economic
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The Jewish community’s social safety net is full of holes

Avi Rose by Avi Rose June 5, 2018June 3, 2019
The Calvin family with IDF soldiers on the tracks leading to Auschwitz-Birkenau on April 15 (Photo/Shahar Azran)
Posted inFirst Person

Discovering pieces of my Jewish identity, in Poland and Israel

by Leo Tovey June 4, 2018
Anni Berkman (left) chats with Maayan Stanton at a 2017 event for first and third generation Holocaust survivors. (Photo/Michael Fox)
Posted inOpinion

What makes the Jewish Bay Area great, and how to make it greater

Rabbi Andrew Kastner by Rabbi Andrew Kastner May 27, 2018May 25, 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)
Posted inCulture

Writing after Roth: ‘Now vee may perhaps to begin’

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin May 24, 2018
UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian
Posted inOpinion

Why this Islamophobia confab in Berkeley was a lie-fest

Lee Kaplan by Lee Kaplan May 22, 2018
Randi Zuckerberg speaking at an event organized by Virago, a strategic advisory company supporting women entrepreneurs, in New York City, Nov. 2, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Monica Schipper-Getty Images)
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You can have it all, just not every day. You have to #PickThree.

Randi Zuckerberg by Randi Zuckerberg May 21, 2018May 21, 2018

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