Chag Pesach Sameach! Wishing everyone a peaceful, joyous, and meaningful Passover. May this season of liberation inspire us to keep working toward a more just and equitable world — for all. 📖 One last thing, add a little feminism to your Seder table and visit: ncjw.org/passover

California's SB 1387 would add "Jewish" as an optional ethnic identity on state govt forms, a US first aimed at closing data gaps on hate crimes & Jewish students. A UC Berkeley demographer urges caution. via @jewishsf.bsky.social jweekly.com/2026/03/30/c...

Chalk Documents: Marjorie Ingall on marking the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire anniversary by writing a victim's name in front of her East Village home, and what the labor movement has to do with American Jewish identity. arcmag.org/a-tribute-to-workers-written-in-chalk

New Documensch Newsletter: March was a big month for Jewish research. AJC/CyberWell on online antisemitism, ADL's campus report card, a Brandeis study on post-Oct. 7 Birthright shifts, and new work in JJE, Modern Judaism, and Contemporary Jewry. documensch.substack.com/p/documensch...

Passover is this week! As we prepare to retell our story of freedom, many are also navigating rising antisemitism, division, and fear. JCPA’s new Haggadah insert — Maror: Tasting the Bitterness Without Becoming It — invites reflection rooted in dignity and pluralism. Download:

SF Hillel ED Roger Feigelson pushes back on the ADL's "C" grade for SF State, arguing the school is actually a national model for addressing campus antisemitism. The ADL's methodology, says Feigelson, doesn't capture what's actually happening on the ground. jweekly.com/2026/03/27/w...

New poll: 55% of American Jews oppose the U.S. war against Iran; 32% support it. More than half worry the joint US-Israel op will become a long-term foreign policy liability. www.jta.org/2026/03/30/u...

An Orthodox Jewish executive coach in LA's Pico-Robertson has organized a walkable No Kings protest so Shabbat-observant Jews can join this weekend's demonstrations and show their neighborhood that the Orthodox community isn't monolithic. forward.com/fast-forward...

Four Bay Area synagogues are doing vital immigrant support work: crossing guards who double as ICE lookouts, an evening food bank, immigration court navigators, and a legal fund that got a parent released from custody. From @jewishsf.bsky.social: jweekly.com/2026/03/25/h...

Rabbi Dr. @jaymichaelson.bsky.social recently sat down with journalist and Nexus Project fellow @emilyctamkin.bsky.social to discuss the dangerous impact of antisemitism and its weaponization — and two major things we’re missing when we educate people about hatred.

Today is the 115th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire: 148 workers killed, most of them young Jewish immigrant women. Survivors like Pauline Newman fought for child labor protections. The @forward.com asks what it means that those protections are eroding again. forward.com/opinion/8095...

"A Haggadah is really just a zine." We love this designer's tour of the contemporary Haggadah as design object. www.itsnicethat.com/features/how...

66% of oklahomans are republican. 75% of jews are democrats.

Prairie Home Minyan: @benyamincohen.bsky.social spent four days in Tulsa reporting on the program flying young Jews to Oklahoma to see if they might make a life there. forward.com/news/814312/...

Birthright's participant pool looks very different post-Oct. 7: more Orthodox, more conservative, more day schooled. And young Jews who opted out? They grew less connected to Judaism. New @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social study via JTA. www.jta.org/2026/03/23/i...

“Refugee Shabbat gives us an opportunity to celebrate the inspiring actions of Jewish communities around the world, who are stepping up to respond in real time to these new realities." Read how people across the world showed up this Refugee Shabbat:

📢 New post is live! Discover the powerful story of Alicia Partnoy—Argentine writer, dictatorship survivor, and human rights advocate. From the Dirty War to a life of memory and justice, her voice still resonates. 🖊️ By Daniela Goldfine 🔗 jwa.org/encyclopedia...

The Kids Are Alright: ‪@jewishsf.bsky.social‬ gave 20 Jewish kids disposable cameras and sent them to Bay Area Purim parties. The results are delightful. jweekly.com/2026/03/19/j...

"Not only is the Antisemitism Industrial Complex failing to focus on the most dangerous forms of antisemitism, many of its efforts are making matters worse." —Rabbi @jaymichaelson.bsky.social in the @forward.com forward.com/opinion/8123...

The Trump Administration continues to exploit legitimate Jewish concerns over antisemitism as a thinly veiled excuse to attack and bully major academic institutions. This authoritarian abuse of power doesn't make Jewish students safer, or reflect the recommendations of antisemitism experts.

Jews have lived in Iran for over 2,700 years. As the U.S.-Israel war on Iran continues, Project Mosaics offers free curriculum tracing that history — from ancient Persia to the crypto-Jews of Mashhad to Tehrangeles. www.projectmosaics.org/copy-of-jews...

In 2003, American forces discovered thousands of Jewish documents in a flooded Baghdad basement. Now a new project is using AI to make them searchable and accessible online. judeoiraq.org

"We should be angry about what's happening in our country and around the world. But the question is, what does that anger awaken in us?" — @sharonbrous.bsky.social of Ikar in J. Weekly jweekly.com/2026/03/18/r...

A financial lifeline or a threat to Brooklyn's most Jewish hospital? The contested merger of Maimonides Medical Center with NYC's public hospital system, explained. forward.com/news/813346/...

Signature Aviation is a company that profits from literally fueling ICE deportation flights. This weekend, we took action to deliver a petition — signed by over 2,800 Jews and allies — at Signature’s DC offices to demand they drop support for ICE. They called the police. But we will not stop 🧵

What do American Jews actually think about the Iran war? Depends on who you ask — and how. @joshnathankazis.bsky.social looks at the methodology behind a widely-cited poll and finds significant problems. 👉 jewishcurrents.org/a-poll-muddl...

For anyone who is interested, I will be giving a lecture tomorrow evening via Zoom on Holocaust memory laws in Central and Eastern Europe, and state construction of historical narratives. Registration here: www.givecampus.com/schools/Sara...

Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh draws on Hillel and Shammai to navigate a moment when her Iranian Jewish community, her liberal colleagues, and her rabbinical training are all pulling in different directions. 👉 bermanarchive.stanford.edu/the-iran-war-outside-the-box/

Indian Jewish Identity: In Modern Judaism, Benjamin Steiner examines the postwar competition between American Orthodox and Conservative movements for the affiliation of India’s Bene Israel Jews. academic.oup.com/mj/article-a...

As the war in Iran rages on, we spoke with Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh because she sits at a rare intersection of experiences: born in Tehrangeles to Iranian Jewish parents, Reform-ordained, and working at American Jewish University. 👉 bermanarchive.stanford.edu/the-iran-war...

The news of the attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, MI is nothing short of terrifying. Our hearts are with the greater Detroit community & our friends at Temple Israel, who are in shock today as another antisemitic attack on a Jewish institution and Jewish way of life makes headlines.

As we wait for more details to emerge from what appears to be an ongoing attack on the largest Reform synagogue in America, we send love and solidarity to the entire congregation and community. Regardless of what exactly is happening, no community should have to live with this fear.

Why are mainstream Jewish orgs largely silent on threats to American democracy? The heads of the Shalom Hartman Institute and A More Perfect Union make the case that they shouldn't be. www.jta.org/2026/03/12/i...

🧵 Ever since the Trump administration began immigration enforcement in "sensitive locations" like schools, teachers and students alike are feeling terrorized. Below are just a few examples from our partners at NEA, who just filed an emergency motion to stop ICE enforcement near schools.

"Jewish text and tradition could not be clearer about our obligation to welcome the sojourner," said Rabbi Jill Jacobs of @truahrabbis.bsky.social. 1,100+ rabbis signed a @hias.org letter urging leaders to stand up for immigrant rights. [@jta.org] www.jta.org/2026/03/11/u...

When you build a machine to target people based on gender, race, or any other identity, it ends up targeting Jews too. New deposition testimony shows a DOGE staffer flagged a Holocaust documentary—about Jewish women forced into slave labor by the Nazis—for termination. His reason is shocking. 🧵

Inside the tense, second U.S. conference of Smol Emuni ("the faithful left") via @forward.com. The goal was to "foster an alternative to the prevailing rightwing discourse about Israeli and American politics in the Orthodox world." forward.com/news/811135/...

Clergy burnout isn't personal weakness — it's a seminary design problem, says Laura Stein in @jta.org www.jta.org/2026/03/06/i...

If you dig into this poll, reputedly the first poll of American Jews on the Iran War, it is not intended to represent all American Jews, but "connected" Jews, defined in the way this organization wants to define them. It's a poll intended to produce a certain result.

New research traces Jewish day school growth in 1970s LA back to court-ordered busing, property taxes, and tensions over race and identity. A window into how Jews navigated a city in flux. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #JewishEducation #JewishStudies

Religion in America: New poll finds 47% of Americans call religion "very important" — below 50% for the first time. Weekly attendance down to 31%. Jewish & Catholic Americans are exceptions to the trend. religionnews.com/2026/03/03/g...

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On Purim, we read the story of Esther, who, at her cousin Mordecai's bidding, used her position of favor with the king to save Jews from a plot by the king's evil advisor, Haman, to kill them all. 1/

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BREAKING: Controversy Over Mamdani’s Declaration of Yiddish as THE Official Jewish Language ingeveb.org/blog/mamdani

"As we have set out to publish our annual Purim issue, I've found it necessary to preface the issue with an apology for our frivolity in light of the state of the world..." (1/3) ingeveb.org/blog/templat...