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Fran Drescher speaks at the 2018 Arizona Ultimate Women's Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo/Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

Why Fran Fine — sorry, Fran Drescher — is the Jewish union queen we all needed

Mira Fox by Mira Fox July 17, 2023July 17, 2023

This story was originally published in the Forward. Fran Drescher is fast becoming a folk hero. The star of “The Nanny” is making a new role for herself: union queen […]

Tefere Gebre,  AFL-CIO executive vice president, at the May Day Rally for Workers’ Rights and Racial Justice in San Francisco, May 1, 2021. (Photo/Brooke Anderson Photography)
Posted inBay Area

BDS now ‘off the table’ for San Francisco labor group, leader says

by Gabriel Greschler September 13, 2021September 13, 2021
Sigismund Danielewicz, seen here ca. 1884, was a Jewish union organizer representing seamen and barbers. (Photo/Courtesy UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library)
Posted inHolidays

This S.F. Jew stood up to anti-Asian hate in 1885 — and got booed

by Gabriel Greschler September 5, 2021January 27, 2022
A demonstration in support of Los Angeles teachers and their union drew 50,000 supporters, March 2014. (Photo/JTA-Flickr-Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association)
Posted inOpinion

Shut up and teach? Why labor unions like mine weigh in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Glenn Sacks by Glenn Sacks and JTA August 10, 2021
Thousands of workers represented by the San Francisco Labor Council in San Francisco for May Day, also known as International Workers Day, May 1, 2021. (Photo/Brooke Anderson)
Posted inBay Area

Another S.F. labor group considering BDS resolution against Israel

by Gabriel Greschler July 14, 2021August 12, 2021
Members of the Los Angeles teachers' union celebrate the end of a strike, Jan. 22, 2019. (Photo/Wikimedia-Mike Chickey)
Posted inEducation

After S.F. teachers’ union vote on Israel, others follow suit around the country

by Gabriel Greschler June 28, 2021June 28, 2021
Barry Broad
Posted inJewish Life

Q&A: This lawyer believes in labor unions and spy novels

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn July 26, 2017July 25, 2017

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