Looking up and down from their screens, concerned parents and grandparents scribbled notes as they listened to a Zoom presentation by Marjorie Swig, founder of Greenlight Clinic, a mental health facility for teens and young adults. The February event, hosted by Congregation Emanu-El, was billed as “Supporting Your School Age Child and Adolescent Through the…
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Bay Area
Program created to honor local day school grad who died in nature
From the time he was a little boy, Yonim Schweig revered nature. He loved hiking and camping with his family and davening in natural settings where he…
Bay Area
Pro-Palestinian group protests $10m Diller gift to Berkeley Law
A group of law students is demanding that Berkeley Law reject a recent $10 million gift from the Helen Diller Foundation to a university institute focused…
First Person
50 years ago, a high school ethnic studies course changed my life
The first semester of my senior year in high school was all about the Native Americans. Fitting, as the school was located in Manhattan, which the early…
U.S.
AJS president resigns over Steven Cohen meeting
Noam Pianko, the president of the Association of Jewish Studies has resigned after revealing that he met with Steven M. Cohen, the Jewish sociologist who…
History
Fifty years ago, a radical Jewish sit-in brought the S.F. Federation to a halt
They brought songbooks, prayerbooks, sleeping bags and Shabbat dinner. But this was no sleepover party. The university students who entered the San…
U.S.
Inside a quiet controversy over Judaism and Zionism at University of Iowa
When the University of Iowa student senate debated a bill to give special representation to Jews on campus, Nick Nachtman voted no. Other minority groups…
Education
Facing litigation, S.F. school board rescinds renaming plan
Faced with a lawsuit and an unfavorable ruling from a Superior Court judge, the San Francisco school board voted on Tuesday to rescind a controversial…
Education
Another round of racist, antisemitic posts at Alameda High School
School administrators in Alameda are once again facing complaints about expressions of antisemitism and racism — this time, in social media posts showing…