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Dalia Ziada, an Egyptian Muslim political analyst and author, speaks on March 24 in San Francisco about her hope for Israel-Arab relations after  the current war with Iran. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Muslim Arab Zionist who fled Egypt still sees hope for Mideast coexistence

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi March 26, 2026March 27, 2026

When she was 18, Dalia Ziada says, she was like any other college student in her home country of Egypt. When the Second Intifada erupted in 2000, she joined anti-Israel […]

Rabbi Arthur Waskow at a protest
Posted inObituaries

Honoring Rabbi Arthur Waskow – activist, pioneer and prophet

Rabbi Jay Michaelson by Rabbi Jay Michaelson October 21, 2025October 21, 2025
Climate activists march from Freedom Plaza to Capitol Hill on October 15, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo/JTA-Alex Wong via Getty)
Posted inU.S.

A massive climate march is scheduled for Rosh Hashanah. Jewish activists have given it their blessing.

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg August 22, 2023August 22, 2023
Elana Dykewomon (Photo/Jane Tyska)
Posted inObituaries

Activist-writer Elana Dykewomon dies, just as her first play debuts

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 9, 2022August 17, 2022
Activists with the Jewish climate change group Dayenu at a New York City event in April 2021. (Photo/JTA-Gili Getz)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish activists take climate change fight to halls of power

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 21, 2021April 22, 2021
Sarah Goody: “I've learned how to focus not on the people who disagree with you, but on the people who agree with you.” (Photo/Norm Levin)
Posted inBay Area, News

Sarah Goody: The Bay Area’s very own Greta

by Gabriel Greschler April 2, 2021April 1, 2021
Emily L. Quint Freeman (Photo/Carlos Zarate)
Posted inBooks

‘Failure to Appear’: At 73, this Vietnam-era anti-war fugitive is telling her story of 20 years on the run

by Liz Harris June 2, 2020July 8, 2020
Straight Pride rally (on left) and counter-protestors outside Planned Parenthood in Modesto, Calif. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inNews

Standing against ‘Straight Pride’ in Modesto

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 25, 2019September 5, 2019
Local teens from NFTY, the Reform youth movement,  at the San Francisco March for our Lives, March 24, 2018. (Photo/Dan Pine)
Posted inNews

Jewish teens ‘pray with their feet’ at S.F. March for Our Lives

by Dan Pine March 24, 2018December 27, 2018
Student at Brandeis School of San Francisco making posters for the March 14 school walkout. (Photo/Courtesy Brandeis SF)
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Students at local Jewish schools will join anti-gun school walkout

by Dan Pine March 13, 2018March 19, 2018

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