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A Mother's Day celebration for Afghan families hosted by JFCS East Bay in 2011. (Courtesy JFCS East Bay)
Posted inBay Area

‘We’re picking up people every day’: Jewish orgs scramble to assist Afghan refugees arriving in Bay Area

by Gabriel Greschler August 20, 2021
Afghans at the Kabul airport on Aug. 16, 2021, hoping to flee as the Taliban retake the country. (Photo/JTA-AFP via Getty Images) INSET: Yasamin Taher, Afghan case manager at JFCS East Bay.
Posted inBay Area

Q&A: Insider view from an Afghan employee at JFCS — and how you can help

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 17, 2021August 17, 2021
A dozen people stand holding up a blue banner that reads "Refugees Welcome" in large white letters.
Posted inU.S.

‘Relieved but disappointed’: America’s Jewish refugee agency in the Biden era

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA April 16, 2021April 16, 2021
President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Major Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center in New Castle, Delaware, Jan. 19, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Chip Somodevilla-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Joe Biden has a lot planned for Day One — including on these issues that have galvanized Jewish voters

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA January 19, 2021January 19, 2021
The author's father, James Rice, in 1946 at a camp housing Jewish orphans nicknamed New Palestine. (Photo/Courtesy Michael Rice)
Posted inOpinion

Saying goodbye to Trump’s immigration policy while remembering the Jewish refugees of post-war Europe

Michael Rice by Michael Rice December 15, 2020
Stephen Miller looks on as President Donald Trump addresses reporters in the Oval Office, July 15, 2020. Miller, who is Jewish, is the architect of the administration's immigration policy. (Photo/JTA-Anna Moneymaker-Pool-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

For most American Jews, immigration looms large in the voting booth — and they don’t like what Trump has done

by Ron Kampeas and JTA November 3, 2020
Officers taking a group of Central American asylum seekers into custody near McAllen, Texas, June 12, 2018. (Photo/JTA-John Moore-Getty Images)
Posted inLocal Voice, Opinion

Pandemic ethics: Let immigrants in, or send them away?

Joel Kamisher by Joel Kamisher April 8, 2020April 8, 2020
Junior Mayema, a gay refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo who now lives in San Francisco is one of four Bay Area refugees profiled in the documentary "Unsettled." (Tom Shepard)
Posted inBay Area, Culture, Film, TV & Film

At East Bay Jewish film fest, ‘Unsettled’ shows humanity of four local gay refugees

by Michael Fox February 27, 2020February 28, 2020
Historian Jennifer Craig-Norton is the author "The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory." (inset courtesy Jennifer Craig Norton; background from book cover)
Posted inHistory

This historian draws lessons about family separation at U.S.-Mexico border from Kindertransport artifacts

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn February 26, 2020
U.S.-Mexico border at Nogales. (Rokeya Akhter)
Posted inLocal Voice

What kind of country does this?

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg February 18, 2020February 18, 2020

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