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State Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco addresses the State Senate. (Photo/California State Senate Democratic Caucus)
Posted inCalifornia

Bill backed by Wiener and Jewish groups would give caseworkers extra time to help refugees

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 23, 2023January 23, 2023
Two ships carrying 1,014 Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors arrive in Haifa, on Jan. 1, 1945. (Photo/JTA - Hulton-Deutsch Collection - CORBIS - Corbis via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

How to find newly released Israeli immigration records from 1919 onward

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA January 13, 2023January 13, 2023
Dr. Jonathan Esensten and his wife, Raquel Gardner, with their five children at Ramat Gan National Park in Israel, June 2022. (Photo/Esti Appleton Photography)
Posted inFirst Person

Why I left San Francisco to write my family’s story in Israel

Dr. Jonathan Esensten by Jonathan Esensten November 2, 2022November 3, 2022
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai on the USS General M.C. Meigs, 1949 (Photo/Courtesy U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library)
Posted inFrom the Archives

75 years ago this week: San Francisco was ‘Port of Hope’ for Jewish refugees from Shanghai

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 17, 2022August 17, 2022
Heather Klein in front of the display about her grandmother, Rose Klein, at the Angel Island Immigration Museum. (Photo/Courtesy Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation)
Posted inNews

Jewish immigrant story part of new museum on Angel Island, ‘Ellis Island of the West’

Larry Sokoloff by Larry Sokoloff May 18, 2022May 19, 2022
U.S. Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to contain migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, Sept. 21, 2019. (Photo/RNS-AP Photo-Felix Marquez)
Posted inUncategorized

It’s time to end Title 42, the immoral — and illegal — Trump-era asylum policy

by Barbara Weinstein, Mary J. Novak and RNS May 11, 2022
Ukrainian refugees walk down the stairs from a plane onto the tarmac as two Israel officials stand by holding small Israeli flags
Posted inOpinion

My heart breaks for Ukrainian refugees — and the Ethiopian Jews who can’t get the same embrace

Haftam Yizhak-Heathwood by Haftam Yizhak-Heathwood and JTA March 11, 2022
Ethiopians are reunited with their families at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, Feb. 4, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Tomer Neuberg-Flash90)
Posted inWorld

Israel to speed up evacuations of Ethiopian Jews in midst of civil war

Shira Hanau by Andrew Lapin, Shira Hanau and JTA November 11, 2021
Abraham Falk-Rood in his classroom at Rudsdale Newcomer High School in Oakland.
Posted inEducation

Q&A: He teaches immigrant teens who live on their own

by Liz Harris October 26, 2021October 26, 2021
A dozen people stand holding up a blue banner that reads "Refugees Welcome" in large white letters.
Posted inLocal Voice

AB 1368 will ensure the health, safety and dignity of those granted asylum

Rabbi Sydney Mintz (Courtesy)Joe Goldman by Rabbi Sydney Mintz and Joe Goldman August 4, 2021August 4, 2021

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