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A man speaks at a lectern. Behind him, "Divest Now" signs can be seen among a seated crowd.
Posted inLocal Voice

Alameda County treasurer’s Israel divestment decision was personal and biased

Teresa Drenick (Courtesy) by Teresa Drenick January 28, 2025January 28, 2025
Members of the Jewish Student Union Germany of Germany demonstrate in Frankfurt against the political party Alternative for Germany, or AfD.(Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Take it from a German Jew: The AfD and its supporters aren’t making Jews safer

by Joshua Schultheis January 28, 2025January 28, 2025
Agamesh Mengistu, mother of Avera Mengistu, with her son Ilan, in Washington, D.C., Nov. 17, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inLocal Voice

This Ethiopian Israeli has been held in Gaza for over a decade. He deserves to be at the front of the line.

Beza Abebe (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Beza Abebe January 27, 2025January 27, 2025
a person holds up a sign that says "Immigrants make American great"
Posted inOpinion

Jews should be condemning mass deportation, not supporting it

by Aviya Kushner January 27, 2025January 27, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference on Jan. 18, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/Israel Government Press Office)
Posted inLocal Voice

Netanyahu is still standing politically — but for how much longer? 

Eran Kaplan by Eran Kaplan January 24, 2025January 24, 2025
a heavily armored bulldozer plows through sandy terrain as an Israel flag waves on its back
Posted inLetters

Alameda County’s BDS move, for and against

by J. Readers January 24, 2025January 24, 2025
Luba Grungras, who is believed to be the last living survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp in the Bay Area, at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living on Jan. 16, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inFirst Person

‘I did not understand I was still alive’: At 100, Auschwitz survivor recalls Holocaust horrors

by Luba Grungras January 23, 2025January 24, 2025
Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Square Fountain became a site to call attention to the hostages and honor the dead after Oct. 7, 2023. A year later, weather-beaten memorials mix with new ones for fallen soldiers, Oct. 20, 2024. (Natalie Weinstein/J. Staff)
Posted inAnalysis

Israelis’ joy seeing hostages freed is tempered by a deep bitterness — and rage

Yossi Klein Halevi by Yossi Klein Halevi January 23, 2025January 24, 2025
A man speaks at a lectern. Behind him, "Divest Now" signs can be seen among a seated crowd.
Posted inLocal Voice

Alameda County treasurer’s BDS move undermines trust and fairness

Ken Bravmann (Courtesy)Itamar Landau by Ken Bravmann and Itamar Landau January 22, 2025January 22, 2025
Hannah Arendt in 1933
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Why everyone is quoting Hannah Arendt, sometimes even accurately

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 21, 2025January 21, 2025

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