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Not long ago, Gugulethu Moyo, a Black Jew and genocide survivor from Zimbabwe, was celebrated as the ideal new leader of Tucson’s Jewish History Museum.
6 months later, she has resigned, citing racism and misogyny. The museum board is now suing her.
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In 1936, some individual athletes made the brave choice to boycott the Olympics, held that year in Nazi Germany.
In 2022, Olympians have the opportunity to take the same bold stance — this time to protest China's genocide against its Uyghur minority.
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Every single Israeli embassy and consulate around the world is closed — including the one in San Francisco that serves Northern California and the Pacific Northwest.
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The Jew in The Pew recently toured the magnificent
@OaklandTemple
of the Church of Latter-day Saints. Normally, only church members can enter — but following a recent renovation, it is open to the public through June 1.
@deseretnews
@churchnewsroom
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OPINION: "It strikes me as extremely confusing, and even incoherent, to pray for the release of hostages, while cheering for an army dropping bombs on them," writes
@RaffiMagarik
:
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How do you protest when gatherings aren't allowed? From your car, of course.
That's what a
@NeverAgainActn
group did yesterday while demanding that Gov. Newsom release ICE detainees, who are at high
#coronavirus
risk because of conditions in detention.
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A fundraiser to repair a vandalized Holocaust memorial fountain in a Santa Rosa cemetery has raised more money than needed, and the excess funds are being redirected toward Holocaust education programs in Sonoma County.
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If you're a print subscriber, keep your eye out for this year's Hanukkah cover in your mailbox, the first ever
@jewishsf
x
@maimonides_nutz
collaboration
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Two Jewish mental health professionals at Stanford University's on-campus counseling clinic have filed workplace discrimination complaints after what they call “severe and persistent” anti-Jewish harassment from colleagues.
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“I was 61, and I know the gray matter starts to disintegrate, so I thought, what the heck. Better do it before it’s too late,” S.F. filmmaker Peter Stein told our
@SueFishkoff
of his appearance on "Jeopardy!" last night.
#Jeopardy
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For two decades, Be’chol Lashon had pioneered programming by and for Jews of color. Now, for the first time, the organization will be led by a Jew of color.
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Pro-Israel advocates will be holding a protest at Zoom headquarters in San Jose on Tuesday, seeking to block the platform from hosting a virtual San Francisco State University event featuring Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled.
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Former ambassador to Germany
@RichardGrenell
, a potential recall challenger to Gov. Gavin Newsom, found himself in hot water this week over a tweet comparing “vaccine passports” to the Nazi persecution of Jews.
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Twitter has an antisemitism problem, and it’s not doing nearly enough to combat it, according to an investigation by the
@ADL
that found Twitter removed only five percent of reported antisemitism content.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has added White House adviser Stephen Miller to a database of extremists that includes former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan.
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“Koshersoul,” chef Michael W. Twitty’s memoir about his career fusing Jewish and African-American culinary histories, has been named the Jewish book of 2022 by the Jewish Book Council.
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Dr.
@Bob_Wachter
of
@UCSF
is a prominent local voice on the coronavirus pandemic. We talked with him about the state of the crisis here in the Bay Area.
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Happy
#Sigd
! In honor of the signature holiday of Ethiopian Jews, some thoughts from
@kaptainsunshine
on how Israel and Africa can help each other
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An introduction to the Yiddish queer anarchists of Glasgow, their pay-what-you-can cafe and their plan for a Yiddish revival in Scotland.
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Why is the government of Azerbaijan helping rebuild a fire-damaged Chabad in San Jose?
@ryanharrytorok
reports:
@AzConsulateLA
@NasimiAghayev
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Jewish groups say the proposed curriculum is one-sided in its view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, does not deal seriously with anti-Semitism, and even uses an anti-Semitic trope.
@CAJewishCaucus
@JIMENA_Voice
@ADL_SF
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At the opening night of Contemporary Jewish Museum's Levi Strauss exhibit, the Jews on Ohlone Land group met in front of the museum to spread awareness of the dark side of the Gold Rush.
#genocide
#Ohlone
#Indigenous
#IndigenousRights
#IndigenousPeoples
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We have joined
@DocumentHate
, a collaboration between
@ProPublica
and many other news organizations that aims to collect data on hate crimes and bias incidents. Anyone can report one using a simple form at anytime. Help us cover hate in the Bay Area!
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Ten Israeli firefighters landed this morning at SFO, on their way to help battle the fires raging throughout California.
It’s the first time Israelis have been deployed to fight fires on the ground in the United States.
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Our favorite Jewish San Francisco twitterer
@maimonides_nutz
is profiled by
@emburack
in
@hey_alma
today!
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BREAKING: Parents and teachers in Los Angeles have sued the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium and the L.A. teachers' union, alleging Civil Rights violations.
@jnewsgabe
reports:
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Meet Gabriel Greschler (
@GGreschler
), our new Editorial Assistant. It's his first day! Gabriel just graduated from
@usfca
, where he was the editor of the student newspaper,
@SFFoghorn
.
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People like the man who shot and killed 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 don't come from nowhere, writes
@amyspitalnick
of
@theJCPA
:
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Elon Musk, like many antisemites before him, is crafting a narrative that his failures (in this case, the sinking fortunes of X) are caused by The Jews, writes
@jh_swanson
for
@jdforward
:
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Local Twitter sensation/artist
@maimonides_nutz
talks with our
@mayamirsky
about Passover plague leggings, obscure Talmudic jokes and the Jewish goth aesthetic:
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A Jewish yoga studio owner announced today he had fired one of his instructors, a longstanding employee, because of her ties to Goyim TV, the group spreading antisemitic flyers all over the country.
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"Jews of color are underrepresented in organizational boardrooms, leadership teams and even groups whose explicit aim is to engage in the work of justice," writes Ilana Kaufman.
Here's what her org
@JoCInitiative
found in a new survey of Jews of color:
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S.F. author Lemony Snicket’s (aka Daniel Handler's) ‘Jewish story’ on Netflix
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"If you don’t preach to the choir, the music stops,"
@BorowitzReport
tells us ahead of his Sept. 17 event with
@CityArtsSF
.
The acclaimed New Yorker satirist be in town talking about his new book, "Profiles in Ignorance."
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EXCLUSIVE: The national environmental nonprofit Sierra Club, headquartered in Oakland, has canceled upcoming trips to Israel in response to pressure from groups accusing it of "greenwashing the conflict."
@jnewsgabe
reports:
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This Sacramento fetish artist and former dildo seller was recently outed by
@LCRWnews
as the voice — the actual voice! — of the far-right extremist "Terrorgram Collective."
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The two most powerful Democratic politicians in America, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, will headline the annual conference of
@jstreetdotorg
, the liberal pro-Israel lobby.
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Sue Fishkoff has been very good for the Jews.
You won’t hear those words from her. In fact, retiring after 11 years as J.’s editor, Sue cannot bring herself to speak of her own accomplishments.
It’s time to put an end to that modesty.
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Meet
@NissimOfficial
. He's black, he's Jewish, he's a rapper — and he's ready to tell you all about it in his carefully crafted new music video "Mothaland Bounce."
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Dear journalists,
We are hiring a reporter, a news editor and and editor in chief. Come work here!
Love, J.
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@aHumanParody
@maimonides_nutz
We had another terrific piece by an autistic bar mitzvah kid a while ago:
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University of San Francisco is looking for a return to basketball glory of decades past — and they think
@CoachToddGolden
, former player for
@MaccabiTLVbc
, is the man to make it happen.
#basketball
#TheDons
@usfca
@USFMBB
@DonsInsiders
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Fresh off of a summer in which they won a WNBA championship and agitated for racial justice, Sue Bird and Alysha Clark opened this year’s Z3 conference along with Pittsburgh Steeler Zach Banner.
@BenjaminOrbach
@S10Bird
@Alysha_Clark
@ZBNFL
@z3_project
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"No guardrails are high enough to prevent radical groups from taking advantage of the already dogmatic California curriculum and making it infinitely worse," writes
@DavidLBernstein
.
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Three dozen migrants from Central and South America arrived in Sacramento in early June, flown there by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
With nowhere to go and nothing but the clothes on their backs, Congregation B'nai Israel stepped up to host them.
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Two queer Jewish women with shaved heads gaze intensely at each other. For nearly three decades, the image has taken on a life of its own.
It will be part of “Renegade San Francisco: the 1990s,” an exhibit of the photography of Chloe Sherman, this summer.
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Hundreds packed the domed sanctuary of Sherith Israel in S.F. today as the Jewish community held a major solidarity event for Israel.
Similar events are being held across the Bay Area, in Marin, Contra Costa, the Peninsula and South Bay.
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Michael Twitty —
@KosherSoul
himself — is busier than ever, but he's making time for a book tour stop at
@JCCSF
later this month.
Our
@esensten
caught up with him on his latest projects:
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A rally Friday afternoon on the UC Berkeley campus drew about 250 Jewish students and their supporters to Sproul Plaza, with one clear message: Bring the hostages home.
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"[Trump and Bibi] are no great statesmen but rather marketing wizards who are up to their necks in trouble," writes former MK
@ZehavaGalon
.
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Reporter
@NellieBowles
tells us how the process of converting to Judaism has changed the way she thinks about journalism.
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Meet Maggie Tokuda-Hall, an Oakland-based writer of Jewish and Japanese heritage whose books run the gamut from picture books to young adult novels.
In this Q&A, she talks about otherness, identity and career advice for aspiring writers.
@emteehall
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A mass grave of Jews has been identified in Latvia following decades of searching. And the body of a Jewish resistance fighter buried in a mass grave has been found in the Netherlands.
@DrJackieMrsHajd
reports:
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“I want to be known as a guy who got some stuff done, and who also is very much a 1950s nerd,” says
@CraigNewmark
. That "stuff" just happens to include founding Craigslist and giving away millions to causes related to
#Judaism
and
#journalism
.
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“You’ll have a very, very hard time finding support [for the executive order] among those of us who understand the workings of university life,” Stanford professor Steve Zipperstein told us.
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Congregation
@SherithIsrael
in SF just became the city's first declared sanctuary synagogue (and the fifth in the Bay Area).
@therac
@URJorg
@HIASrefugees
@FIABayArea
#sanctuarysynagogue
#sanctuary
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10
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“The accords, in my humble opinion, are the beginning of the end of the Arab-Israeli conflict,” said
@DanFeferman
at a local event featuring delegates from Abraham Accords nations.
@JNewsGabe
reports:
@hayvibouzo
@omaralbusaidy
@Fatemaal7rbi
@CMechtaly
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Scott Wiener, a gay, Jewish state senator from San Francisco, has been inundated with antisemitic and homophobic threats this week from online conspiracy theorists, related to a bill he’s sponsoring on sex offenders.
@CAJewishCaucus
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The Trump era was a difficult and transformational time for
@HIASrefugees
, America's Jewish refugee resettlement agency.
But under Biden, America's return to its role as a world leader in refugee resettlement is still a ways off.
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New staff alert! Please welcome
@EmmaAudreyGoss
, our new part-time staff writer. She also works at
@KTVU
and we're so excited to have her. Everyone be nice to her!
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#Review
: Our Andrew
@Esensten
recommends an insightful new biography of Philip Roth, titled creatively, "Philip Roth: The Biography" by
@BlakeBaileyOn
.
@wwnorton
#literature
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6
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The Republican Jewish Coalition launched a $10 million campaign — an unprecedented amount in partisan Jewish advertising — with online ads calling Democratic presidential candidates as a "shanda,"
#Yiddish
for "disgrace."
#GOP
#Republicans
#Democrats
@RJC
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Rabbi Jocee Hudson writes about
#SB567
, the Homelessness Prevention Act, which would help make housing more secure for Californians.
@PICOcalifornia
and others will rally tomorrow at the capitol to show their support.
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BREAKING: Half of the SF-based Jewish Community Federation's incoming board members are Jews of color.
The move will help create a “stronger and more durable” organization, according to CEO Danny Grossman.
@JewishBayArea
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City and state leaders gathered at Congregation Emanu-El this afternoon in a show of unity in response to an increasing number of antisemitic incidents over the last year.
@GGreschler
reports:
@templeemanuelsf
@LondonBreed
@Scott_Wiener
@DavidChiu
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Last night in SF:
@GrantRumley
talked about his new book on Mahmoud Abbas, "The Last Palestinian"
@IsraelPolicy4m
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Four states have presidential primaries that fall on the first day of Passover next year and legislation has been introduced in at least two of them, Maryland and Pennsylvania, to change the date.
@kampeas
explains:
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A 4-1 vote by the Alameda City Council last night has saved Musiy Rishin, an 87-year-old Soviet-born disabled Holocaust survivor, from being evicted from his apartment.
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“In my heart I hold Jerusalem and Africa,”
@WestsideGravy
says in “Diaspora,” his biggest hit to date.
@esensten
on what's next for the San Diego-raised Black Jewish rapper:
@newzionists
#HipHop
#Rap
#JoinTheJewishConversation
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Campaign urges Jews and allies to
#ShowUpForShabbat
this weekend, in response to
#PittsburghSynagogue
shooting
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8
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In San Francisco, some voters get to drop off their ballots across the street from the Mission Dolores at Congregation
@ShaarZahav1977
, which has been a polling place for many years.
Other synagogues and JCCs around the Bay Area serve as polling places too! What about yours?
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution yesterday in support of a state Senate bill that would bolster Holocaust education for the state’s middle and high school students.
@SupStefani
@SenHenryStern
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8
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J. has won 18 national Jewish journalism awards! 🎉
The American Jewish Press Association recognized work by J. staffers
@jnewsgabe
,
@esensten
and
@mayamirsky
; contributors Dan Pine,
@WallAlix
,
@EstherK
and
@IrwinEKeller
; and former staffer
@ggreschler
.
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3
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On Sunday afternoon, a crowd of 60 people gathered in front of San Francisco’s City Hall to protest the killing of
#SarahHalimi
, a Jewish woman in France who was the victim of an antisemitic attack in 2017.
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4
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Before 21-year-old Petaluma native
@Epstein_Griffin
leaves for Israel to cover the
@Maccabiah2022
Games for
@MaccabiUSA
, he spoke with
@ItsGabeFisher
about journalism, Judaism and the unifying power of sports.
@IndianaUniv
@IUMediaSchool
@IUSportsMedia
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5
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This year's
@SFJewishFilm
Fest — sponsored by us! — will screen 67 movies at
@Castro_Theatre
,
@VogueTheaterSF
and
@LandmarkLTC
's Piedmont Theatre, July 20-Aug. 6.
See you there?
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9
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Police in Poland arrested the antisemitic provocateur Jon Minadeo, Jr., today, according to his social media account on Gab, marking the first time Minadeo has publicly faced legal repercussions for spreading antisemitic propaganda.
From
@jnewsgabe
.
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In 1948, some American Jewish leaders decried violence against Palestinians. "Where are we now?" asks David Granberg
@IfNotNow_Bay
@IfNotNowOrg
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A White House summit on extremism received mixed reviews from Jewish participants. Some said the day was infused with a Christian sensibility, including a major theme about forgiving one’s attackers.
@kampeas
reports:
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Eyeing audience growth and an expansion of its digital offerings, J. The Jewish News of Northern California (that's us!) has hired
@jgksf
as the 127-year-old publications’s first-ever CEO.
@jnewsgabe
reports:
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Aww thanks
@thislouis
for including the retirement of our editor
@SueFishkoff
in the
@jdforward
California Briefing! (And thanks for calling us "the strongest local Jewish outlet in the country" — we're blushing😊)
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2
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#Giants
beat writer
@HankSchulman
, known for his penetrating personality profiles and colorful style, is retiring.
Last year he told our
@jnewsgabe
that being inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California was a “very high honor.”
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The San Francisco Black & Jewish Unity Coalition is holding a teach-in on reparations for African Americans in California and San Francisco at
@SherithIsrael
Sept. 18.
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Claire Saffitz is coming to town.
@Nigella_Lawson
is coming to town.
@PhilRosenthal
is coming to town.
@JFoodSociety
is coming to town.
@NHendizadeh
is coming to town.
@DebPerelman
of
@smittenkitchen
is coming to town.
@JCCSF
@omnivorebooks
@sf_curran
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4
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Meet Nathan Berro Krugman, a Jewish firefighter who spent two week fighting the Caldor Fire.
Read
@GGreschler
's full interview with him:
#CaldorFire
#Wildfire
#JoinTheJewishConversation
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1
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As
#Yiddish
culture org
@WorkersCircle
debuted its new gender-neutral name, it also gave an award to
#SethRogen
and his father. Rogen plays a Yiddish-speaking character in his next film,
#AmericanPickle
, and his father acted in Yiddish theater.
#Wholesome
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4
15
“Two Tribes,” a new graphic novel by
@emilyboco
, follows 12-year-old Mia as she explores her Jewish and Indigenous roots.
Culture editor
@esensten
spoke with Cohen about the book and Native American representation in popular culture.
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9
15
Bay Area native Julian Edelman, who plays for the Patriots, invited NBA player Meyers Leonard over for Shabbat dinner after Leonard used an antisemitic slur while streaming a video game.
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In a potent symbolic act, German demonstrators marched from Bebelplatz, where Nazis burned Jewish books in the early 1930s, to the site of a venerable synagogue rebuilt after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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"The Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade, issued today, takes us right back to the dark ages of back-alley abortions in a wide swath of our country," writes
@RabbiJill
.
(And she suggests checking out
@NCJW
's virtual abortion rally at 1 pm!)
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