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Santa Clara board agrees teacher violated policy by showing anti-Israel Holocaust video

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 11, 2025November 17, 2025

Updated Nov. 13 The Santa Clara Unified School District board sided with concerned Jewish parents last week in determining that a teacher failed to “exercise good judgment” when showing students […]

The bride and groom, Ophir Haberer and Adi Aboody, exit the chuppah after the ceremony with family and friends applauding. (Photo/JTA-Luna Munn Photography)
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Their wilderness-inspired Jewish wedding featured an animal-skin ketubah and ‘first fruits’ altar

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and JTA August 8, 2022
Nether Rabbi Amy Wallk nor Rabbi Mark Cohn had been looking for a relationship when they first met at the Shalom Hartman Institute in 2017. (Photo/JTA-Tamar Katz)
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Two rabbis, from two different denominations, get a second chance at love

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and JTA July 26, 2022July 27, 2022
Rabbis Becca Walker (left) and Ariella Rosen became the first same-sex rabbinical couple to be married in the Conservative movement. (Photo/JTA-Kelly Prizel Photography)
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Their same-sex rabbinical wedding was a historic first for the Conservative movement

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and JTA November 10, 2021
Judy Penso and Marc Manason enjoying their wedding day, April 30, 2021. (Photo/Lisa Sibony)
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‘It can happen at any age’: Single mother featured in 2001 J. article finds love, marries for first time at 61

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 21, 2021July 21, 2021
Miriam Nehama Ani and Brandon Waloff at their Zoom wedding, May 31, 2020. (Photo/Éli Zaturanski-Visage Studios)
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Oakland couple was hesitant, but Zoom wedding proved to be ‘magical’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 15, 2020June 18, 2020
Janet Silver Ghent and Allen Podell celebrate 20 years of marriage at Il Fornaio in Palo Alto on Feb. 13, 2020.
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A ‘match made in newsprint,’ 20 years later

by J. Staff March 13, 2020
Ellen Spiro (left) and Rabbi Sydney Mintz at their wedding in San Francisco on July 26. (Marc Estoque)
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Kumquats, Trump, a van and a Vespa: building blocks for everlasting love

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 26, 2019November 26, 2019
Janice Brenner and Stephen Farber at their wedding on Jan. 20, 2019
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While caring for others, they learned to care for each other

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 15, 2019July 15, 2019
Rebecca Katz and Darian Heyman with their son, Rafi, at their September 2018 wedding
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On-and-off relationship leads to marriage — and a big surprise

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 4, 2019March 5, 2019

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