California
In California, rabbis ask why clergy aren’t in first — or second, or third — group for COVID-19 vaccination
Why don’t clergy get vaccination priority in California?
When LA locked down, he started taking photos.
“People have a sense of the significance of the time we’re living through, and with that comes a need or desire to document it for posterity.
At 93, Yakob Basner is still L.A.’s go-to Yiddish teacher
Basner shares some moving episodes he experienced under the Soviets and how he became a Yiddish activist in Los Angeles.
14-year-old charged with hate crime in assault on San Diego rabbi
The rabbi and his congregants had, for weeks, been harassed by a group of teens including his assailant.
California governor vetoes high school ethnic studies mandate
In the waning hours of the review period for bills passed during the 2019-20 legislative session on Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom broke with strong majorities in both chambers to turn back Assembly Bill 331, which would have made an ethnic studies course mandatory in public high schools.
Instagram account “outs” Jewish high school students in northern California county
School officials believe they have identified the student running the account and given the information to local law enforcement.
California state senator facing anti-Semitic, homophobic death threats
Scott Wiener is being called a pedophile because of a bill he introduced. He blames it on the growing QAnon conspiracy theory.
Jewish caucus inserts anti-bias ‘guardrails’ into California ethnic studies law
Jewish caucus inserts anti-bias ‘guardrails’ into California ethnic studies law
‘Jews want a race war’ website removed only to be quickly replaced
The Goyim TV saga reflects the challenge of controlling hate-spewing websites, and the whack-a-mole-like effort it can take to take them down.
Torahs packed, California synagogues on high alert as wildfires bear down
It is “literally raining ashes,” said one Chabad rabbi.