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East Palo Alto's City Council meeting on May 5 drew dozens of opponents of a proclamation related to antisemitism. (Courtesy Mark Dinan)
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East Palo Alto becomes first local city to adopt contested definition of antisemitism

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi May 8, 2026May 8, 2026

After years of local governments voting on condemnations of Israel and calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, a small city on the Peninsula passed a proclamation this week that links […]

Israeli Consul General Marco Sermoneta at a ceremony for Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s memorial day, at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Memorial event in Palo Alto turns political as crowd jeers at Israeli consul general 

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 21, 2026April 23, 2026
Adam Eilath, head of school at Wornick Jewish Day School in Foster City. (Courtesy Wornick Jewish Day School)
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Heads of six Jewish schools say hello and goodbye in the Bay Area and beyond 

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 20, 2026April 21, 2026
Hoover Tower as seen through the trees at Stanford University in Palo Alto. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Stanford alums create online resource to connect Jews on campus

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 10, 2026February 11, 2026
Noa Argamani, a former hostage in Gaza, tells her story at the OFJCC in Palo Alto on Dec. 16. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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‘If we give up, we just lose,’ former hostage Noa Argamani says in Bay Area

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 17, 2025December 18, 2025
Jon Polin (left) looks on as his wife Rachel Goldberg-Polin talks about the loss of their son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, to Oshman Family JCC CEO Zack Bodner during the closing plenary of the Z3 Conference at the OFJCC in Palo Alto, Nov. 9, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Goldberg-Polins discuss grief, God and Israel’s future at Z3

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 14, 2025November 17, 2025
Adults sitting in circle listen to speaker
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Russian speakers in Palo Alto are getting the tools to become Jewish leaders

by Sue Fishkoff October 20, 2025October 21, 2025
landscaping in front of Etz Chayim
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After two decades in former YWCA, Palo Alto’s Etz Chayim modernizes

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss September 2, 2025September 2, 2025
In this session at the Z3 conference in Palo Alto, Nov. 10, 2019, Stanford Hillel students led round table conversations asking participants how they would have handled real-life campus situations. (Photo/Courtesy Z3)
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Palo Alto JCC’s Z3 Conference back with ‘futuristic’ bent

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 30, 2021
Aaron Alpert, in blue, leading an Israeli dance session at Palo Alto's Mitchell Park earlier this month. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
Posted inCulture

Outdoor Israeli dancing attracts young and old, Jewish and non-Jewish

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 27, 2021May 28, 2021

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