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Historian Jennifer Craig-Norton is the author "The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory." (inset courtesy Jennifer Craig Norton; background from book cover)
Posted inHistory

This historian draws lessons about family separation at U.S.-Mexico border from Kindertransport artifacts

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn February 26, 2020

Seven years ago, Jennifer Craig-Norton uncovered a cache of original correspondence about a group of Kindertransport children from Poland. A Ph.D. candidate in England at the time, she had no […]

Julie Chronister, one of the organizers of the Jewish Bay Area contingent at the McAllen protest (Photo/Sonia Daccarret)
Posted inBay Area

Bay Area housing sought for three immigrant families

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol July 27, 2018July 30, 2018
Rabbi Sydney Mintz (center) of Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco marches with other faith leaders at a protest in San Diego on July 2. (Photo/Ellen Fleishhacker)
Posted inUncategorized

‘Moral emergency’: Bay Area Jews join nationwide immigration protests

by Dan Pine July 3, 2018July 27, 2018
The Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews held daily vigils in front of the Soviet Consulate, like this one in Nov. 1986, to protest the USSR policies that made it difficult for Jews to leave Russia. (Photos/Tom Wachs)
Posted inLocal Voice

You know who else separated families trying to cross borders? The Soviets.

by David Waksberg June 29, 2018June 26, 2019
A woman with her back to the camera; the back of her jacket reads: "I really do care, don't you?"
Posted inNews

Around the Bay and at the border, Jews fan out to protest child detention

by Dan Pine June 28, 2018June 28, 2018
Children and workers at a tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, June 19, 2018 (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Posted inColumns

Looking to a 16-year-old border detainee for a ray of humanity

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein June 25, 2018

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