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Am Yisrael Chai graduation cap
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Sacramento graduate lifted her voice not to stir outrage, but to support hostages

Rabbi Reuven Taff (Courtesy) by Rabbi Reuven Taff July 9, 2025July 9, 2025

Graduation season is often filled with joy, relief and pride. Yet this year, the spotlight has often shifted from celebration to controversy. More and more, student commencement speeches have become […]

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Posted inU.S.

‘No divestment, no commencement’: Students fear protests will upend their college graduations

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz April 30, 2024
Gen Xia Ye Slosberg
Posted inBay Area, Education, Jewish Life, News

A Jewish-Asian college student grieves a lost senior year, and so much more

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA June 2, 2021June 2, 2021
Jewish Community High School of the Bay graduates in 2019. (Barbara Butkus Photography)
Posted inUncategorized

This year we really mean ‘salute to grads’

by J. Editorial Board May 28, 2021
Yosef Rosen teaching a senior seminar, Issues in Jewish Thought, at Jewish Community High School of the Bay in San Francisco. (Photo/Courtesy JCHS)
Posted inEducation

Graduation 2021: Socially distanced, but still together

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 28, 2021June 2, 2021
A girl poses in the cap and gown of her graduation outfit in poppy fields near the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve on April 16, 2020 in Lancaster, California, where the annual spring bloom is underway.  (Photo/JTA-AFP via Getty Images-Frederic J. Brown)
Posted inUncategorized

High school graduation and then… college? Here’s what local Jewish corona-grads are planning.

by J. Staff June 1, 2020October 23, 2023
Churro. Waffles. !!!
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Finger lickin’ good BBQ and waffles for dads and grads

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer June 1, 2018May 31, 2018

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