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Maps in Oakland schools that axed Israel were discriminatory, state finds

California’s Department of Education found that Oakland schools discriminated against "Jewish persons" by publishing maps ...
J. The Jewish News of Northern California

Two Jewish circuses bring modern acrobatics — and trained cats

Two very different circuses by Jewish directors are coming to town, with acts that range from modern acrobatics to trained ...
J. The Jewish News of Northern California

Daniel Naroditsky, Jewish chess grandmaster and Bay Area native, dies at 29

Daniel Naroditsky, a former child prodigy, attended Jewish day school in the Bay Area and became one of the world's foremost ...
J. The Jewish News of Northern California

U.S. military base canceled a children’s event celebrating a Jewish cyclist, citing DEI ban

The objectionable material was “Pedal Pusher,” a picture book about 19th-century cyclist Annie Cohen Kopchovsky.
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Meet Madam Julie Rosewald, the world’s first woman cantor

San Francisco was home to the world’s first woman cantor — Madam Julie Rosewald, who served for years as cantor of Emanu-El.
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My Jewish studies students aren’t talking about Israel or antisemitism. They told me why.

( JTA) — I first noticed something was off on the first day of class. I had given my students in my “Sociology of American Jewish life” course at Tulane University blank index cards, asking them to ...