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Holocaust survivors Esther and Zygmunt Binder, the author's parents, in Detroit in 1975. (Courtesy)
Posted inBooks

A little-known Polish story comes to life in bestselling memoir

by Sue Fishkoff October 8, 2025October 9, 2025

Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. Updated on Oct. 9 In 1967, about 25,000 Jews lived in Poland, a sad remnant […]

Lucia da Silva (center) prays with Women of the Wall during her bat mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall. (Photo/Forward-Tal Kfir Schurr)
Posted inOpinion

Sorry situation at Western Wall; SFUSD wrong on Muslim holidays; etc.

by J. Readers August 18, 2022August 18, 2022
Jack Hirschman reads from the Italian edition of his book “The Arcanes.” (Photo/Marco Cinque)
Posted inObituaries

Jack Hirschman, S.F. poet laureate and ‘bad Jew,’ dies at 87

by Patricia Corrigan August 24, 2021August 24, 2021
Rachel Brahinsky is co-author of "A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area."
Posted inCulture

Going ‘beneath the sidewalk’ to reveal the Bay Area’s untold history

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 14, 2020October 15, 2020
Mort Elkins (center) in his Army Air Corps uniform. (COURTESY MATT ELKINS)
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My parents, McCarthyism and how ‘the unthinkable is always possible’

Matt Elkins by Matt Elkins March 17, 2020March 16, 2020
black and white photo of a police officer standing amid rubble inside
Posted inEducation

New class on U.S. Jewish communists, anarchists and socialists of the 20th century

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller March 13, 2019March 13, 2019
Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 10 (Photo/Chip Somodevilla-Getty Images)
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Save our day schools; communism’s moral heirs; travel ban security angle

by J. Readers July 13, 2018
"The Communist Blueprint for the Future" — more American than you might think (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
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A fifth-column 4th: Celebrating Independence Day in 2018

by Dan Pine July 3, 2018July 9, 2018
From the cover of "Red Diaper Daughter" by Laura Bock
Posted inCulture

How a ‘Red Diaper’ baby grew into a full-spectrum activist

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 21, 2018June 21, 2018
Jewish organizations during the May Day demonstration at Marsovo Pole in Petrograd, Russia, 1919. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center)
Posted inNews

100 years later: What was the role of Jews in the 1917 Russian Revolution?

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz November 7, 2017March 19, 2018

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