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Trump holding one of his new bibles. (Screenshot/EWTN)
Posted inLocal Voice

I translated the complete Hebrew Bible. Trump’s ‘USA Bible’ betrays its greatest asset

by Robert Alter March 29, 2024March 29, 2024
Marra Gad speaking at The Baldwin School in Pennsylvania, March 7, 2024. (Photo/Courtesy The Baldwin School)
Posted inOpinion

I was discouraged from applying to cantorial school. I still found my voice.

Marra B. Gad by Marra B. Gad March 26, 2024April 3, 2024
A complaint filed by the Brandeis Center and the ADL to the U.S. Department of Education alleges: "Teachers and staff at BHS organized, promoted, and participated in a demonstration calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war. The event took place on the school's theater steps during school hours on February 2, 2024." (Photo/Screenshot)
Posted inOpinion

The trickle-down effect: Antisemitism seeps into California’s K-12 schools

Rachel Lerman. (Photo/Courtesy) by Rachel Lerman March 25, 2024March 28, 2024
Introduction to Shooting, hosted by SF Bad Jews at San Leandro Rifle & Pistol Range, Feb. 25, 2024. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
Posted inLetters

Mourning Sooze Potter; Jews with guns; Crisis at UC Berkeley; etc.

by J. Readers March 20, 2024March 20, 2024
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators block Sather Gate with a sign about Israel and the US committing genocide against Gaza during a “Liberate the Gate” protest against antisemitism at UC Berkeley on Monday, March 11, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inLocal Voice

UC Berkeley administrators falsely take credit for work to combat antisemitism

Steven Davidoff Solomon by Steven Davidoff Solomon March 19, 2024March 19, 2024
Jonathan Glazer, winner of the Best International Feature Film award for “The Zone of Interest”, onstage in the press room at the 96th Annual Academy Awards at Ovation Hollywood on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo/JTA-Jeff Kravitz-FilmMagic)
Posted inLocal Voice

I wasn’t surprised that Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech ignited hysteria

Deborah Kaufman (Photo/Courtesy) by Deborah Kaufman March 18, 2024March 18, 2024
(Screenshot/Guernica; Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inOpinion

An elite literary journal imploded over an essay about the war — because it dared to humanize Israelis as well as Palestinians

Nora Berman by Nora Berman March 14, 2024
In February 2021, Kestenbaum & Company, a Brooklyn firm that has specialized in Judaica, pulled off its catalogue what the Jewish Community of Cluj, Romania, says is a 19th-century ledger from its Jewish burial society.  (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Kestenbaum & Company)
Posted inOpinion

For every looted Schiele, there are countless looted Jewish artifacts. They need to be returned to their rightful owners, too.

Gideon Taylor by Gideon Taylor March 12, 2024
Sde Yoav in Israel (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inFirst Person

Why Israelis and American Jews feel so isolated and alone

by Inbal Frankenstein March 7, 2024March 7, 2024
The Jewish Unity March against antisemitism in San Francisco on Sunday, March 3, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inLetters

We’re not Nazis; strong feelings on Gaza; etc.

by J. Readers March 6, 2024March 11, 2024

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