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Shirel Golan survived the Nova massacre but died by suicide. Online denial may be to blame

headshot of Meredith Jacobs by Meredith Jacobs October 22, 2024October 22, 2024
an image of a mosque, part photograph and part illustration, fractured down the middle
Posted inLocal Voice

Why was an S.F. Jewish Film Festival movie just banned in Israel?

Rebecca Pierce by Rebecca Pierce October 21, 2024October 21, 2024
the outline of a person hunched over in grief is filled with a photo of a man dancing with a Torah
Posted inOpinion

How to celebrate Simchat Torah when our hearts are weighed down by grief

headshot of Rabbi Elie Kaunfer by Rabbi Elie Kaunfer October 21, 2024October 21, 2024
Palestinians walk through rubble following an Israeli airstrike on the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City in northern Gaza on Oct. 9, 2023. (Wafa-APAimages via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inLocal Voice

Why I couldn’t pray this Yom Kippur

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg October 18, 2024October 18, 2024
The State Opera in Vienna, Austria. (Clive Kim via pexels.com)
Posted inYouth Voice

My family trip to Austria was a rude awakening about Holocaust education

Maya Mazin (Photo/Courtesy) by Maya Mazin October 18, 2024October 18, 2024
The Blue Angels fly over San Francisco during the 2019 San Francisco Fleet Week Air Show. (U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Schumaker via Flickr)
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Fleet Week, for and against; AJC libeled; Let’s rename everything!

by J. Readers October 16, 2024October 18, 2024
one of the boxes hangs from the roof of a sukkah
Posted inReligion

We bought the viral Amazon ‘tuchus’ boxes for Sukkot. What does that say about us?

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer October 16, 2024October 16, 2024
Cars and houses in Asheville, North Carolina, had trees fall on them during Hurricane Helene in September 2024. (Joanie Terrizzi)
Posted inFirst Person

Battered by Hurricane Helene, it doesn’t make sense to build a sukkah in Asheville this year

Joanie Terrizzi by Joanie Terrizzi October 16, 2024October 16, 2024
a vivid painting of a goat in the desert
Posted inLocal Voice

Many politicians today love to make a scapegoat of others

by Rabbi Zari Weiss October 15, 2024October 15, 2024
A woman poses with two loaves of bread shaped a 6 and a 0
Posted inSeniors

60 ways to leave your 50s: How I turned a big birthday into a tzedakah project

by Beth Astor Freeman October 14, 2024October 15, 2024

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