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Easter

All Americans do Easter, right? .... Right? (Photo/piqsels.com)
Posted inJewish Life

Christmas and Easter are American holidays — aren’t they?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler March 15, 2022

Dear Dawn: I’m trying to understand my Jewish girlfriend’s desire to not have American holidays, which she says are Christian. I said that I’m willing to do the Jewish holidays […]

The Rev. Jim Mitulski is the interim pastor of the Island United Church UCC in Foster City, co-president of the Peninsula Multifaith Coalition and a member of the Peninsula Solidarity Cohort. 
Posted inOpinion

Christian pastor: This Holy Week, I’m giving up antisemitism

Rev. Jim Mitulski by Rev. Jim Mitulski March 26, 2021March 26, 2021
An Easter ad that employed anti-Semitic tropes appeared in the Sacramento Bee newspaper on April 10 and 12.
Posted inNorthern California

Sacramento newspaper apologizes for anti-Semitic Easter ad

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn April 15, 2020
Italy doesn't mess around when it comes to Easter. (Photo/Wikimedia-Figiu CC BY 3.0)
Posted inColumns

For this Jew, Passover (read: Easter) in Italy was not bellissimo

Larry RosenEric Goldbrener by Larry Rosen and Eric Goldbrener May 1, 2018May 1, 2018

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