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Tad Taube

Clockwise from top left: Jessica B. Peixotto in 1923 (J. Archives); Gluten-Free Upside-Down Caramel Apple Cake (Micah Siva); a photo posted to social media of eight teens lying in the shape of a swastika on a football field; Rabbi Shua Brick in the sanctuary at Oakland's Beth Jacob Congregation. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Our top 10 Bay Area Jewish news stories of 2025

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 29, 2025December 29, 2025

As 2025 blessedly comes to a close, it’s time once again to count down our top 10 most-read articles of the year. I’ve come to enjoy this annual exercise as […]

Tad Taube (Courtesy)
Posted inObituaries

Tad Taube, donor to causes from Bay Area to Poland, dies at 94

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett September 13, 2025September 18, 2025
Defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.  (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum-Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, College Park)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Stanford begins work on massive digital archive of Nuremberg documents

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller April 22, 2021April 22, 2021
Police use tear gas around the Capitol building where pro-Trump supporters breached the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Lev Radin-Pacific Press-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

In riot’s wake, Federations chief pledges training to avoid repeats of grants to far-right groups

by Ron Kampeas and JTA January 18, 2021
A video played at AJC's "Diplomacy at 75" event included several clips of newsreel footage of San Francisco from the time of the founding of the U.N. (Screenshot from Facebook)
Posted inHanukkah

San Francisco diplomats celebrate AJC, UN Charter and Hanukkah

by Dan Pine December 15, 2020December 16, 2020
black and white image of an enormous crowd. some people are holding up a banner that says "their fight is our fight"
Posted inTV & Film

Silicon Valley Jewish film fest opens in your living room with doc about Black-Jewish relations

Laura Pall by Laura Paull August 19, 2020
Travel trailers used to house homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic in East Oakland. (Photo/City of Oakland)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Taubes help fund coronavirus housing for Oakland homeless

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 11, 2020May 11, 2020
Exterior of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Photo/from file)
Posted inBay Area, World, Culture, News, Philanthropy

Poland Jewish history museum leadership chaos ends; local funder Tad Taube pleased

by JTA and J. Staff February 18, 2020February 18, 2020
Exterior of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Photo/from file)
Posted inBay Area, World, News

Polish minister says Jewish museum’s director ‘politicized’ it

by JTA September 25, 2019September 25, 2019
Exterior of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Photo/from file)
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Uncertainty around Polish Jewish museum’s leadership has donors holding back, funding group says

by JTA and J. Staff July 18, 2019July 19, 2019

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