After four years of unprecedented political tumult, a moment of great reckoning is just around the corner: Election Day. It is time for America to choose between Donald Trump and Joe Biden for the highest office in the land. Partisans on both sides agree that this is the most consequential election in modern U.S. history.…
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Honor thy parents, and the frontline workers helping them
There are some hopeful signs in our nation’s months-long battle with the coronavirus. Testing has ramped up, treatments for Covid-19 have improved,…
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Leila Khaled has nothing to teach S.F. State students
On Sept. 23, Leila Khaled is scheduled to address San Francisco State students in an “open classrooms” event titled “Gender, Justice and Resistance” and…
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When disaster strikes, Israel is there to help
If you want to thank a firefighter battling the many lightning-sparked wildfires in Northern California, “todah rabah” might be appropriate. That’s…
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UAE-Israel deal moves peace in the right direction
It’s taken 41 years since the first, and 26 years since the second, but the third peace deal between Israel and a once-hostile Arab nation is now a…
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Why this publication is changing its spelling of antisemitism
Astute readers will notice a change in how we spell antisemitism, the word referring to a pathological hatred of Jews that, unfortunately, persists in our…
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The geometry of Covid-19
Normally, this is the time of year when families with school-age children are shopping for school supplies, squeezing in the last summer trip, and looking…
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Thinking of reopening? Listen to the science. Follow Jewish values.
Five months into the coronavirus pandemic, cooped-up Californians wonder, “When can we reopen?” The answer, according to state and local authorities: not…
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We must support our JCCs in these troubled times
Devastating news has come from our seven Bay Area Jewish community centers. As detailed in our series of stories on the state of local JCCs, all have…