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In the 1940s, we often wrote of "the Palestine Problem."
Posted inFrom the Archives

A second look back at 130 years of our publication

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 2, 2025December 2, 2025

Welcome to the second installment of our look back at J.’s history to mark our 130th birthday. (Gifts are welcome, by the way.) Our first issue was Nov. 22, 1895. […]

The National Endowment for the Humanities has historically funded scholarship in the humanities. (Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Scholars tell important Jewish stories with NEH funds. What happens to them now?

Pamela S. Nadell by Pamela S. Nadell April 10, 2025April 10, 2025
The I. Magnin building in Oakland. (Photo/Flickr user Hitchster)
Posted inFrom the Archives

The Magnin family built an upscale retail empire based in Union Square 150 years ago

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 29, 2024May 29, 2024
An obituary for Lewis Emanuel in our July 24, 1896 edition.
Posted inLocal Voice

For an ol’ prospector of Jewish genealogy, J.’s new archives are a gold mine

Jeremy Frankel by Jeremy Frankel March 14, 2022
Rabbi Sheldon Lewis in uniform in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Posted inBooks

Rabbi recounts heartrending year in Vietnam in new memoir

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 26, 2021August 26, 2021
From the cover of “Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age” by Valerie Estelle Frankel
Posted inBooks

Q&A: New book explains how Jews invented science fiction

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 13, 2021June 10, 2024
From the poster for "The Meaning of Hitler."
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Documentary review: ‘The Meaning of Hitler’ is obvious and elusive — and worrying 

by Michael Fox August 10, 2021August 10, 2021
The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, photographed on Oct. 17, 1934, is superimposed with an image of a page from a manuscript of a Tiberias rabbi who traveled to Europe on a fundraising mission in 1807. (Photo/JTA-MCNY-Gottscho-Schleisner-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

A Jewish library’s treasure surfaced at auction. How did it get there?

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA July 28, 2021
Teachers, students and school board members in the Milwaukee area hold a news conference opposing new bills seeking to bar schools from teaching ideas linked to critical race theory, June 12, 2021. (Photo/Flickr-Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association)
Posted inOpinion

Banning critical race theory will gut the teaching of Jewish history

Henry Abramson by Henry Abramson and JTA July 14, 2021
Edith Heine as a toddler in pre-war Holland.
Posted inYom HaShoah

East Bay Holocaust survivor, 83, shares history through a child’s eyes

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 5, 2021April 7, 2021

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