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Oil wells set on  fire by Iraqi forces burned outside of Kuwait City during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. (Tech Sgt. David Mcleod via Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files)
Posted inLocal Voice

Spectacle of war masks hidden forces shaping our lives

Dan Glass (Courtesy) by Dan Glass March 10, 2026March 10, 2026

Some of my earliest concepts of war were shaped by a cassette tape. On long road trips in the 1980s, my parents would play Paul Simon’s “Graceland” on the car […]

Screenshot from a video taken by a Brandeis School staff member of a man in a white sedan shouting "f**k Israel" as he drives past a student and her mother on Brotherhood Way in San Francisco. (Courtesy)
Posted inBay Area

Antisemitic invective shouted from car in incidents at S.F. day school, synagogue

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 19, 2025May 21, 2025
Noah, a student at Brandeis Marin, in a first-grade class in 2021. (Photo/Anya Shuteroff)
Posted inEducation

Pandemic’s impact on Jewish schools: more students, more financial need

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 27, 2022June 8, 2022
Students at Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto during the 2020-21 school year. (Photo/Deena Riddle)
Posted inEducation

Kehillah students must be vaxed. Other local Jewish schools are still weighing their options.

by Gabriel Greschler August 18, 2021August 23, 2021
Yavneh Day School teacher Jenessa Schwartz's third-grade daughter Ramona at Yavneh's all-school tefillah. (Photo/Courtesy Jenessa Schwartz)
Posted inEducation

Jewish schools making the grade with distance learning

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 27, 2020April 27, 2020
Members of Jewish Youth for Climate Justice at the Sept. 20, 2019, climate protest in San Francisco (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inBay Area

At S.F. climate march, shofar blown to ‘mark the end of fossil fuels’

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman September 20, 2019October 2, 2019
A teen girl writes with a marker, sitting on the floor, smiling
Posted inEducation

Youth philanthropy confab in S.F. aims to excite teens about Jewish giving

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 7, 2019
Brandeis Marin Head of School Dan Glass
Posted inEducation

Brandeis 5-year plan focuses on academics and teachers

by Rob Gloster January 18, 2019January 24, 2019
Former Brandeis Marin student Ethan Lamstein studied Israeli street artists before his school's trip to Israel.
Posted inIsrael at 70

School Israel trips evolve to keep up with society, and with teens

by Rob Gloster September 26, 2018October 2, 2018
Student athletes from nine day schools participated in this year's Golden Tallis Invitational, including Jewish Community High School of the Bay and Kehillah Jewish High School. (Photo/Tri Nguyen-Courtesy JCHS)
Posted inSports

Jewish day schools duke it out in S.F. at ‘Golden Tallis’ basketball tournament

by Rob Gloster January 30, 2018January 31, 2018

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