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The slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei" is seen over the gateway to the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. (Photo/Matthias Köhne via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inBooks

What we keep getting wrong about the Holocaust

by Julia M. Klein February 8, 2024
Daniel Klein, CEO of Jewish Silicon Valley, at the site of the Nova music festival massacre. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Silicon Valley)
Posted inOpinion

Visiting Israel makes the war and hostage situation more real and urgent

Daniel Klein by Daniel Klein February 8, 2024February 9, 2024
A supporter of a measure requiring Hayward to divest from four companies that do business with Israel speaks at a Hayward City Council meeting on Jan. 23, 2024. (Screenshot)
Posted inLocal Voice

Hayward City Council’s vote to divest from Israel will have unintended consequences

Jeremy Templeton by Jeremy Templeton February 7, 2024February 8, 2024
Can one really "live long AND prosper," as Spock said? He lived to be 161! (Photo/CBS)
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

On a good day, living to 100 sounds wonderful. On a bad day — don’t ask

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz February 7, 2024February 7, 2024
A group of East Bay residents rally in support of the hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza every day on an East Bay overpass. (Photo/Instagram @24_bring_them_home)
Posted inLetters

Iran feels protected; Hostages need more attention; Reining in settler; etc.

by J. Readers February 5, 2024February 5, 2024
an illustration of a small, fragile doll cupped in a pair of hands
Posted inOpinion

Laws targeting the freedom of trans people should sound familiar to Jews

Jonah Sam Kaye by Jonah "Sam" Kaye February 1, 2024February 1, 2024
A Standing Together anti-war vigil in December in Haifa. (Photo/Haaretz-Courtesy Standing Together)
Posted inOpinion

Why BDS can’t tolerate Jews and Palestinians in Israel standing together

by Etan Nechin February 1, 2024February 1, 2024
Palestinian residents at a UN school that was damaged during Israeli shelling in the northern Gaza Strip on July 30, 2014, during the previous round of Israel-Gaza hostilities. (Photo/Flickr-U.N. by Shareef Sarhan CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

With Gazans starving and freezing, the U.S. withholding funds from UNRWA is unconscionable

Marilyn Garson by Marilyn Garson January 30, 2024January 30, 2024
Israel Defense Forces soldiers operate in Gaza, Nov. 2, 2023. (Photo/Courtesy IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
Posted inUncategorized, Opinion

We must continue to support Israel’s war — and honestly grapple with tough questions from critics

Yehuda Kurtzer by Yehuda Kurtzer January 30, 2024January 30, 2024
Don Peretz (second from left), who would later become an American Jewish Committee official studying Arab refugee affairs, in Acre while volunteering to aid displaced Arabs in February 1949. (Photo/Courtesy Deborah Peretz)
Posted inBooks

When ‘nice Jewish boys and girls’ first took up the cause of Palestinian rights

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 29, 2024January 29, 2024

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