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Berkeley High School (Photo/Melinda Young Stuart via Flickr)
Posted inOpinion

Memo to Berkeley school district: Do the right thing

by Mark Brilliant and Shamik Dasgupta October 18, 2023October 25, 2023
Left: A woman mourns by the coffins of Jews who died in the Kielce pogrom, Poland, July 6, 1946. (Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) Right: Forensic staff at a makeshift morgue in Ramla, Israel attend the bodies of Israeli citizens killed by Hamas terrorists, Oct. 13, 2023. (Photo/Leon Neal-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

The Hamas attack must be understood in terms of Jewish trauma

Yehuda Kurtzer by Yehuda Kurtzer October 18, 2023October 25, 2023
(Illustration/JTA)
Posted inOpinion

Help kids deal with a flood of pain on social media — beyond just looking away

David Bryfman by David Bryfman and Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath October 17, 2023October 25, 2023
El Cerrito Mayor Pro Tem Tessa Rudnick (second from left) and the rest of the El Cerrito City Council hold up signs reading "El Cerrito stands united against hate." (Photo/Courtesy Rudnick)
Posted inOpinion

Why my council made the heartbreaking decision to end remote public comments

by Tessa Rudnick October 16, 2023October 25, 2023
Art from Distinctions: A Sephardi and Mizrahi Journal, published by JIMENA.
Posted inLocal Voice

How JIMENA is supporting Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews right now

Sarah Levin by Sarah Levin October 13, 2023October 13, 2023
Pro-Palestinian protesters and pro-Israel counter-demonstrators square off outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco, Oct. 8, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Tayfun Coskun-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inBay Area

S.F. high school student: I feel alone in my fears about Israel

Hannah Coleman by Hannah Coleman October 12, 2023October 13, 2023
Burnt out cars at the Supernova Music Festival that was attacked by Hamas. (Photo/Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Why we need to stop calling Hamas attackers ‘militants’ or ‘gunmen’ and start calling them ‘terrorists’

by Aviya Kushner October 12, 2023October 12, 2023
Offir Gutelzon, co-founder of the Israeli expat protest group UnXeptable, hugs Marco Sermoneta, Israel's S.F.-based consul general, at an Oct. 8 gathering at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco in support of Israel, which was infiltrated and attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inLocal Voice

We’ve been fighting for democracy; now we’re fighting for Israel’s very life

Offir Gutelzon by Offir Gutelzon October 11, 2023October 11, 2023
A view of downtown Placerville, county seat of El Dorado County. (Photo/Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inLetters

‘Erasing the truth’; broken hearts; Putin is sneaky; etc.

by J. Readers October 11, 2023October 16, 2023
Carolyn Mulcahy, preschool director at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, and a child try out an outdoor activity at the new preschool, Feb. 2023. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inEducation

Improving Jewish preschools starts with paying our teachers more

by Denise Moyes Schnur October 6, 2023

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