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Opinion

Images of victims of the Holocaust in the rotunda of Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust museum and memorial. (Photo/Wikimedia CC0)
Posted inYouth Voice

At my Bay Area high school, Holocaust education barely exists

Ben Siegel by Ben Siegel December 5, 2023
Demonstrators outside a Dec. 4 UN special session by the Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN about sexual violence committed by Hamas during the terror attacks on Oct. 7 (Photo/JTA-Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inOpinion

The women’s movement has a double standard when sexual violence happens to Israelis

headshot of Meredith Jacobs by Meredith Jacobs December 5, 2023December 6, 2023
Palestinians and their supporters protest outside the Embassy of Israel in London, Oct. 9, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Wiktor Szymanowicz-Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

How ‘decolonization’ became the latest flashpoint in the discourse over Israel

by Andrew Silow-Carroll December 4, 2023
A conspiracy theorist who claimed that "Israel murdered their own people on Oct. 7" at the Nov. 27 meeting of the Oakland City Council, as seen in a video of extreme comments from the meeting that went viral. (Photo illustration/Forward-Nora Berman; screenshot via KTOP-TV)
Posted inLocal Voice

I was shouted down for condemning Hamas in an Oakland City Council meeting

Teresa Drenick (Courtesy) by Teresa Drenick December 1, 2023December 1, 2023
African asylum-seekers volunteer on a farm in central Israel. Since the Oct. 7 attacks, dozens of asylum-seekers are supporting emergency efforts in Israel in a collaboration with African Refugee Development Center-Israel and Leket Israel, the country's national food bank. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy ARDC-Israel)
Posted inOpinion

It’s not just Israeli Jews who were displaced by the Hamas attack

Dyonna Ginsburg (Photo/JTA)Tanyah Murkes (Photo/JTA) by Dyonna Ginsburg and Tanyah Murkes November 29, 2023November 29, 2023
A classroom at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School in Palo Alto in 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Sanchez)
Posted inLocal Voice

How should Jewish educators handle the Israel-Hamas war in their classrooms?

by Hanan Alexander and Benji Davis November 27, 2023
A sea of signs demanding the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza at the March for Israel in Washington, Nov. 14, 2023. (Photo/Courtesy JCRC Bay Area)
Posted inOpinion

Israel’s hostage deal makes the best of an impossible situation

Rabbi Jay Michaelson by Rabbi Jay Michaelson November 21, 2023November 21, 2023
Oakland elementary school teacher Naomi Bernstein at a press conference at Montclair Elementary School, where parents, teachers and Jewish leaders spoke out against a statement on Gaza by the Oakland teachers union, Nov. 10, 2023. (Photo/Dan Ancona)
Posted inLetters

Half-baked politics at Arizmendi; Think locally, act locally; Blame Hamas; etc.

by J. Readers November 20, 2023
a woman looks down at her phone
Posted inAnalysis

No, you’re not that good at detecting fake videos from Israel and Gaza

by Sam Wineburg and Michael Caulfield November 20, 2023November 20, 2023
Protesters in the rotunda of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland wear T-shirts reading "Cease Fire Now," "Jews for a Cease Fire" and "Not in Our Name," Nov. 13, 2023. (Photo/Courtesy-JVP)
Posted inOpinion

JVP calls for cease-fire are calls to ‘save Hamas’ so they can attack again

Marco Sermonetta by Marco Sermoneta November 17, 2023November 20, 2023

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