3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (762+ words) Mira Stern's website describes her as a community builder, educator, consultant and ritualist, as well as a "queer Jewish mama" dedicated to equity and collective liberation. She has a toddler and is visibly pregnant with her second child. There is…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (360+ words) (JTA) " Gaza and Israel go unmentioned in the Democrats" 190-page autopsy of Kamala Harris" 2024 presidential election loss that the Democratic National Committee released to CNN on Thursday. Critics of the Biden administration"s support for Israel during the war in…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1077+ words) Mark Basta was seven years old when the 2011 Egyptian Revolution broke out. The uprising led to the overthrow of longtime president Hosni Mubarak after decades of authoritarian rule, and was driven by demands for democracy, economic reform and an end…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (614+ words) Rita Semel, who died May 13 at 104, was known throughout the Bay Area as an activist. But first, she was a newspaperwoman " at this paper. Before all the committees and speaking engagements she was known for, and alongside some of the…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1398+ words) (JTA) " Barney Frank, for years the progressive conscience of his party who died on Tuesday night, had one last piece of advice for Democrats as he entered hospice care earlier this month: Repudiate litmus tests " except for Israel. The United…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (108+ words) A new work commissioned by the Berkeley Community Chorus & Orchestra explores the complex musical world of Terez'n....

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (491+ words) Without water, a city cannot support life. Likewise, without Torah, the Jewish people would die of thirst....

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (940+ words) Barney Frank, who advocated for LGBTQ rights in Congress and coauthored the last major finance reform bill, has died at 86....

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (262+ words) Whether you call it Shavuoth, Shavuos, Shevuous, Shabuoth, the holiday has both agrarian and educational origins....

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (633+ words) (JTA) " Major U. S. Jewish organizations are calling for the quick passage of new bipartisan Senate legislation aimed at protecting Jews and Jewish institutions from antisemitism. The Jewish American Security Act is sponsored by James Lankford, a Republican from Oregon, and Jacky…...