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Dan Kalb, Oakland City council member for District 1, in Oakland on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inLetters

Dan Kalb deserves better; Not the Oakland I know; Life in the ‘quiet middle’; etc.

by J. Readers December 21, 2023December 21, 2023
A Jewish student holds up an Israeli flag in front of a student holding up a Palestinian flag on the edge of a pro-Israel rally at UC Berkeley, Oct. 10, 2023. (Photo/Ben Weiss-Ishai)
Posted inLocal Voice

‘Must justice for Palestine mean injustice for Israel?’

by Mark Brilliant December 20, 2023December 20, 2023
Demonstrators raise Palestinian and Israeli flags in support and opposition to a resolution in support of a ceasefire in Gaza at Oakland City Hall on Monday, Oct. 28, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inLocal Voice

We must relearn our history to fight for a Jewish future: four ideas

Arthur Slepian by Arthur Slepian December 18, 2023
Woman watches TV
Posted inU.S.

‘Quiet middle’ among U.S. Jews has growing qualms over the war

by Andrew Silow-Carroll December 18, 2023December 18, 2023
The Israeli U.N. mission hosted an event on Dec. 4, 2023, to focus on the rapes committed by Hamas on Oct. 7 and to press the international community to speak out more forcefully against the sexual violence.
(Photo/JTA-Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inOpinion

The women’s movement has abandoned Israeli victims of rape from Oct. 7

Amy Neustein by Amy Neustein December 15, 2023December 16, 2023
A damaged building at Kibbutz Kfar Aza (Photo/Courtesy Laura Lauder)
Posted inLocal Voice

We cannot let the world forget, minimize or rationalize the Oct. 7 massacre

by Barry Cohn and Guy Miasnik December 13, 2023
President Joe Biden, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Central Synagogue in New York City host a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House, Dec. 11, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Bonnie Cash-Pool-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

President Biden, Jewish American safety is your responsibility, not Israel’s

Emily Tamkin by Emily Tamkin December 12, 2023December 12, 2023
A Hanukkah celebration at the Eiffel Tower in 2016. (Photo/Flickr-Chabad.org CC BY 2.0)
Posted inAnalysis

How a Hanukkah faux-pas ignited a political firestorm in France

by Robert Zaretsky December 11, 2023
An attendee at an Oakland City Council meeting holds up a "Ceasefire Now" sign during discussion of a resolution in support of a permanent cease-fire in Gaza at Oakland City Hall on, Nov. 27, 2023.  (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inLetters

Cease-fire supports Hamas; What really happened in Oakland; Defense of Rep. Huffman; etc.

by J. Readers December 8, 2023
Joy Sisisky in her office at the Jewish Community Federation in San Francisco. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inUncategorized, Local Voice

The Federation as a center for Jewish philanthropy, today and always

Joy Sisisky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Joy Sisisky December 8, 2023December 7, 2023

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