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Holocaust

87-year-old Holocaust survivor Musiy Rishin was under threat of eviction until the Alameda city council stepped in. (Photo/Courtesy Svetlana Rishin)
Posted inSeniors

Holocaust survivor spared eviction in Alameda City Council vote

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 4, 2019September 4, 2019
Still from “Crickets Would Sing” by director and writer Mauricio Baiocchi
Posted inTV & Film

Local survivor’s memoir to be adapted as stop-motion animated film

Laura Pall by Laura Paull August 30, 2019May 26, 2021
Eli Roth (left) as the "Bear Jew" and Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film "Inglourious Basterds"
Posted inFilm

‘Inglourious Basterds’ came out 10 years ago. Has its meaning changed?

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA August 14, 2019
Rabbi Mira Rivera speaks at a Jewish protest against Amazon at one of the company’s brick-and-mortar stores in New York City, Aug. 11, 2019. The protest was held on Tisha B’Av, a traditional Jewish day of mourning. Behind the speaker is a banner with a Hebrew quotation from the Book of Lamentations, which is traditionally read on Tisha B'Av. (Photo/JTA-Facebook video screenshot)
Posted inNews

40 Jews arrested in New York protesting Amazon’s ties with ICE

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales August 12, 2019August 12, 2019
Education Minister Rafi Peretz speaks at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, July 4, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inIsrael

Israeli official walks back comment comparing intermarriage to the Holocaust

by JTA July 17, 2019
Sophie Weinzimmer (third from left) with her family in a Displaced Persons camp for Holocaust survivors in Steyr, Austria, March 1949
Posted inNews

Saratoga woman visits Austrian DP camp where she was born

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat July 9, 2019July 10, 2019
Led by Jewish activist group Never Again Action, hundreds marched down Market Street to the San Francisco Federal Building to protest conditions in migrant detention camps, July 5, 2019. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inBay Area

‘Never Again’ is now, say hundreds marching through S.F. streets

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman July 5, 2019July 9, 2019
Officers taking a group of Central American asylum seekers into custody near McAllen, Texas, June 12, 2018. (Photo/JTA-John Moore-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

What will we tell the descendants of children detained by our government?

Donald C. Cutler by Donald C. Cutler July 2, 2019July 2, 2019
Immigrants apprehended by Border Patrol seen at the Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, June 17, 2018. (Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
Posted inLocal Voice

A historian’s perspective: Concentration camps in America?

David Biale by David Biale July 1, 2019July 1, 2019
(JTA-Alma collage)
Posted inPride

As a queer Jew, learning Anne Frank was bisexual is a game-changer

by Yonah Bex Gerber June 12, 2019

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