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Anthony Bourdain (right) in Bethlehem with the founder of a Palestinian children's theater program in the Jerusalem episode of Bourdain's "Parts Unknown" series
Posted inCulture

Anthony Bourdain used food to bridge divides — even between Arabs and Jews

by Charles Dunst June 11, 2018June 11, 2018
poverty poor economic
Posted inUncategorized

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
People running from tear gas at the border fence with Israel in Gaza City, May 15, 2018 (Photo/JTA-Spencer Platt-Getty Images)
Posted inLetters

We’re wrong about Gaza; Arthur Waskow is wrong about Ruth; etc.

by J. Readers June 1, 2018May 31, 2018
A rocket fired from Gaza toward southern Israel (Photo/Flickr-paffairs_sanfrancsico CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

Gaza flare-up ends quickly but highlights threat from Iran

by J. Editorial Board May 31, 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)
Posted inOpinion

No oppression in Azerbaijan? Hardly!

Molly Freeman by Molly Freeman May 30, 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
Michael Chabon
Posted inOpinion

Why we invited a critic of Israel to speak at a rabbinic ordination

Rabbi David EllensonJoshua Holo by Rabbi David Ellenson and Joshua Holo May 25, 2018May 29, 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

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