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Peace activist Maoz Inon gives a tour of the old city of Nazareth. (Courtesy Rabbi Amy Eilberg)
Posted inLocal Voice

Visiting Israel, I discovered that hope for peace still exists

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg July 17, 2024July 17, 2024
Antisemitic graffiti on the playground at Commodore Sloat Elementary School in San Francisco, Aug. 2023.
Posted inUncategorized

Had enough of hate graffiti in the Bay Area? Here’s what you can do 

by Nancy Appel and Rafael Brinner July 16, 2024July 16, 2024
"A good soldier/zionist/settler is a DEAD ONE," reads sidewalk graffiti near the UC Davis pro-Palestinian encampment, which has since been disbanded. (Mily Ron)
Posted inLocal Voice

UC Davis talks up free-speech protections while ignoring Jewish voices

Leah Hibel (Courtesy) by Leah Hibel July 15, 2024July 16, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1994. (Saar Yaacov/Israel Government Press Office)
Posted inAnalysis

Trump and Rabin: Two assassination attempts with very different outcomes

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman July 14, 2024July 15, 2024
(From left) Steven Skybell, Jonah Weinstein, Yair Ben-Dor, Lori Wilner and Suzanne Toren in "The Eighth Day." (Courtesy)
Posted inOpinion

The circumcision debate can be messy. In our film, we wanted to make it funny.

Jonah Weinstein by Jonah Weinstein July 12, 2024July 12, 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 inOpinion

Has Israel really killed up to 186,000 people in Gaza? How to understand the numbers war

by Jessica Trisko Darden July 11, 2024July 11, 2024
Israel Defense Forces personnel stand guard as a bulldozer demolishes a building in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank on June 26, 2024. (Eid Suleiman)
Posted inLocal Voice

I am an Israeli American Jew. Bulldozing Palestinian homes is personal for me

Ben Linder by Ben Linder July 10, 2024July 10, 2024
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march in the Resistance Contingent during the San Francisco Pride Parade in San Francisco, June 30, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inLetters

Seniors need more time in JCC pool; Why I boycotted SF Pride; ‘Intellectual slovenliness’

by J. Readers July 9, 2024August 12, 2024
The late Chabad rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in Brooklyn, May 1987 (Photo/Wikimedia CC BY 3.0)
Posted inLocal Voice

Remembering Rabbi Schneerson, who believed a single mitzvah could change the world

Rabbi Mendy Cohen by Rabbi Mendy Cohen July 8, 2024July 8, 2024
Steve Bannon speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. (Gage Skidmore via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

Steve Bannon wants Jews to ‘hard weld’ to Christian nationalists. Not so fast

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman July 5, 2024July 5, 2024

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