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Posted inBay Area

What motivated the teenagers who made the ‘human swastika’ in San Jose? 

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 11, 2025December 11, 2025

Eight teenagers laid down on a sports field in San Jose and formed a swastika with their bodies, which they photographed and posted to social media last week, along with […]

Julian Berkowitz-Sklar
Posted inPhilanthropy

3 Bay Area Jewish teens win $36,000 Diller Teen awards for social justice projects

by Jordan Greene June 28, 2023June 29, 2023
A white woman in her 60s wearing glasses smiles while seated near a piano
Posted inJewish Life

Q&A: Brooke Joseph talks getting teens to vote and the making of a U.S. president

by Liz Harris July 27, 2022July 28, 2022
HaZamir singers at the 2016 gala concert at Carnegie Hall.
Posted inMusic

HaZamir, the international Jewish choir, seeks teen singers for East Bay chapter

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 30, 2022June 30, 2022
photo illustration. a young white man in a hoodie is seen from the back in a city at night. he is enveloped and obscured by a multi-colored bubble.
Posted inHealth

A lost year: Teen mental health during the pandemic

by Gabriel Greschler April 16, 2021April 16, 2021
Members of Jewish Youth for Climate Justice at the Sept. 20, 2019, climate protest in San Francisco (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inLocal Voice

Prop. 18 is vital for teens who want — and deserve — to vote

Rabbi Katie Mizrahi headshotElla Yitzhaki by Rabbi Katie Mizrahi and Ella Yitzhaki October 14, 2020October 15, 2020
a white teenage boy sits in a facemask
Posted inParenting

The new normal is not normal, but the kids seem all right

by Julie Levine September 25, 2020
Isha Clarke, 17, a founding member of Youth Vs. Apocalypse, is one of the 2020 Tikkun Olam Award winners. (Photo/Nikki Ritcher)
Posted inNews

Prestigious Diller Tikkun Olam awards for 3 Bay Area teens

by Gabriel Greschler June 22, 2020June 23, 2020
Teens listen to a keynote address at the 2020 Club Z convention in San Mateo. (Club Z)
Posted inNews

‘You are soldiers’: Zionist teens from across country attend Bay Area gathering

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 22, 2020January 23, 2020
Sabrina (left) and Sydney Brandeis (Photo/Emma Hopkins)
Posted inEducation

East Bay sisters’ anti-hate project wins top USC Shoah prize

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 2, 2019

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