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Ramy (Ramy Youssef) and Yuval (Julian Sergi) traveled to Israel together for a business opportunity in season three of "Ramy." (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Hulu)
Posted inUncategorized

Ramy Youssef opens up on filming in Israel, writing Jewish characters and reading Heschel

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA October 21, 2022October 21, 2022
Ilan Vitemberg performing for children with a puppet at the Jewish Community Library. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Community Library)
Posted inObituaries

Beloved Bay Area Israel educator Ilan Vitemberg dies of complications from Covid

Alix Wall by Alix Wall October 4, 2022October 12, 2022
Rabbi Mark Bloom of Temple Beth Abraham gives closing remarks at an Jewish community mayoral forum held at Temple Sinai in Oakland, Sept. 15, 2022. Candidates (from left: Loren Taylor, Treva Reid and Sheng Thao. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inNews

Oakland mayoral candidates tiptoe around Israel at wide-ranging Jewish forum

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman September 16, 2022September 17, 2022
Tova Ricardo
Posted inPoetry

East Bay native ‘Tova the Poet’ provides Jewish affirmation on Instagram and TikTok

by Dan Pine July 27, 2022August 2, 2022
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mohamed al-Halbousi at the parliament building in Baghdad, Aug. 28, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Ludovic Marin-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inAnalysis

The US and Israel want to unite the Middle East against Iran. Iraq could pose a problem.

by Ron Kampeas and JTA July 15, 2022July 15, 2022
White man standing next to Israeli flag
Posted inNews

Israeli PM Bennett won’t run in fall elections

by Andrew Lapin and JTA June 29, 2022
U.S. President Joe Biden steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Des Moines International Airport, April 12, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Mandel Ngan-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

It’s official: Biden will visit Israel, West Bank and Saudi Arabia in July

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 14, 2022
In a 2009 photo, a yoetzet halachah, or Jewish legal counselor, answers a hotline for women with questions relating to Jewish laws on sex and intimacy. (Photo/Courtesy Nishmat)
Posted inNews

In a first, Israeli government to pay Orthodox women to advise on Jewish law

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 7, 2022
LEAP participants listening to a tour guide at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
(Photo/Thomas Echevarria)
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At Palo Alto JCC, teen group ‘leaps’ between Israel and diaspora

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 30, 2022May 27, 2022
A girl cries outside a civic center where grief counseling is offered in Uvalde, Texas. (Photo/JTA-Allison Dinner-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

When it comes to gun control, why can’t the U.S. be more like Israel?

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward May 25, 2022May 25, 2022

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