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Haneen Zoabi attending the weekly Joint Arab list meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem. Feb. 8, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inOpinion

Plot twist! This week’s letters to the editor are all positive!

by J. Readers May 4, 2018
This cartographic mashup of the Bay Area and the Middle East was created by Redditor u/trampolinebears.
Posted inOpinion

Israel/Bay Area cartographic mashup is fun, but sobering

by J. Editorial Board May 3, 2018
The names of lynching victims are inscribed on weathered steel columns that hang from the ceiling at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. (Photo/JTA-Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post-Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person, Local Voice, Opinion, Travel

The Montgomery lynching memorial is a project of American teshuvah

Rabbi Michael Lezak by Rabbi Michael Lezak May 2, 2018May 3, 2018
Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League, speaking at the Grand Hyatt hotel in New York City, Oct. 2, 2015. (Photo/JTA-Leigh Vogel-Getty Images for Concordia Summit)
Posted inColumns

The ADL’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

by Andrew Silow-Carroll May 1, 2018May 1, 2018
Natan Sharansky at his office in Jerusalem, Sept. 2013 (Photo/JTA-Flash90-Miriam Alster)
Posted inLocal Voice, Opinion

How Natan Sharansky changed the game for Israel on campus

Moshe Alfisher by Moshe Alfisher April 27, 2018
Screenshot of Facebook live video of a protest by the IfNotNow group at the San Francisco office of Senator Dianne Feinstein
Posted inOpinion

Why didn’t they teach me about the Occupation? It’s time for NFTY to speak out.

Katie Simpson by Katie Simpson April 26, 2018April 27, 2018
The new population survey of Bay Area Jews found that Jews 18-34 are more likely to attend a Shabbat dinner and attend High Holy Days services than their older counterparts. Pictured: a 2017 Shabbat dinner funded by the organization OneTable (Photo/Natalie Schrik)
Posted inOpinion

Manifesting a broad sense of Jewish belonging in light of population study

Julie Golde by Julie Golde April 25, 2018
Israelis attending a rally marking 22 years since the assassination of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, Nov. 4, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Miriam Alster-Flash90)
Posted inOpinion

Peace in Israel depends on healing left-right rift

Joe Goldman by Joe Goldman April 24, 2018April 24, 2018
"Hipster Herzl," part of Israeli artist Amit Shimoni's Hipstory series, reimagines the legendary Zionist leader and his iconic beard.
Posted inOpinion

Hipster Herzl ‘an insult’; and everything wrong with our Israel at 70 essays

by J. Staff April 22, 2018April 30, 2018
Shoshana Hebshi at her home in Santa Rosa
Posted inOpinion

My community is healing, but the heartache still lingers

Shoshana Hebshi by Shoshana Hebshi April 20, 2018April 19, 2018

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