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(Photo/Pixabay-HolgersFotografie CC0)
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

Misadventure of a miscreant Broadway baby

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz June 21, 2023June 21, 2023
Shlomo Carlebach at his 1960s base of operations, the House of Love and Prayer in San Francisco
Posted inLetters

Weaponizing the Holocaust; Carlebach and the perils of adulation; Etc.

by J. Readers June 20, 2023
A JewBelong sign in downtown San Francisco at Front Street and Market Street, July 2021. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inUncategorized

Why I don’t love ‘Jew hate’ as a substitute for ‘antisemitism’

Todd L. Pittinsky by Todd L. Pittinsky June 20, 2023June 20, 2023
The Greenville, North Carolina, Juneteenth parade, June 19, 2021. (Photo/Rawpixel CC0)
Posted inJuneteenth

Not just a second Passover: Juneteenth’s unfinished journey

Robin Washington by Robin Washington June 19, 2023June 19, 2023
Walking through Jerusalem's Old City shuk in May are (from left) Mila Lazarevsky, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Noelle Bonner and Meron Foster. (Photo/Dan Garon)
Posted inUncategorized

What I learned about San Francisco from visiting Israel with Mayor Breed

David Kaufman by David Kaufman June 14, 2023
The author's Zumba instructor, Asya Deliahmedova, dancing at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. (Photo/Instagram @asinka82)
Posted inAct Two

True confessions of a lifelong klutz now hooked on Zumba

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent June 14, 2023June 14, 2023
a row of small trans flags along a curb
Posted inOpinion

Rainbow flags are not enough against deluge of anti-LGBTQ+ hate

Tyler Gregory by Tye Gregory June 13, 2023June 14, 2023
(Image by Laura E. Adkins via OpenArt)
Posted inOpinion

Why did two LA lawyers tank their careers with antisemitic emails?

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman June 8, 2023
Stow Lake is named for William W. Stow, speaker of the Assembly in 1855 who railed against the state’s Jews. (Photos/Wikimedia Commons, Souvenir Evening Post; Collage/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inLetters

Sad farewell to Meira Academy; Don’t rename Stow Lake; Breed in Israel

by J. Readers June 7, 2023June 8, 2023
a photo of the antisemitism entry in a dictionary
Posted inOpinion

Nuance is crucial in fighting hate. That’s why I helped write an alternative definition of antisemitism.

Jonathan Jacoby by Jonathan Jacoby June 7, 2023

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