Education
S.F. State president on invitation to hijacker and academic freedom
An upcoming virtual event at San Francisco State featuring Palestinian militant Leila Khaled, who hijacked two planes in 1969 and 1970 as a member of the…
Our Crowd
Honors, happenings, comings & goings — September 2020
Honors & Awards Oakland native and college senior Aviva Davis has been named to the first class of Alma College Writing Fellows, a program run by the…
Bay Area
New coronavirus cases reported at two S.F. Jewish senior homes
Updated Sept. 21, 1:30 p.m.: On Sept. 18 the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living reported two additional coronavirus cases among its staff, and on…
Bay Area
Oakland 24-year-old seeking multiethnic bone marrow donor
It’s already hard enough for blood cancer patients to find a match through the international bone marrow registry, which pairs patients with potential…
Bay Area
Israeli firefighter in California: ‘The mind can’t understand the size of this fire’
Israeli firefighter Idan Braun, who had come halfway around the world to help fight Northern California’s wildfires, couldn’t believe his eyes. “The mind…
Politics
QAnon is an old form of antisemitism in a new package
Scott Wiener, who represents San Francisco in the California state senate, has been barraged with antisemitic attacks online, including one falsely…
Seniors
Florence Metz, 105 and still going strong, to be celebrated
Florence Metz, a retired North Bay teacher who has been confined to her home these days, as most of us have, also lived through the Great Influenza…
Education
New grant boosts UC Berkeley antisemitism education program
In a fraught campus political atmosphere, antisemitic bias and stereotyping can quickly turn conversations sour for Jewish students, making them feel…
Bay Area
Leila Khaled event at S.F. State gets Israeli Knesset’s attention
After drawing outrage from Bay Area Jewish organizations, an upcoming video event hosted by San Francisco State professors featuring a Palestinian…