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Does the Jewish Community Relations Council do . The truth is that the jc rc is the umbrella body for the organized Jewish Community in the bay area, representing the Jewish Community on the vitally important Public Affairs issues, domestic and international, ranging from israel to the civil rights, antisemitism and quality public education. We started just after the holocaust windy american Jewish Community realized the absence of the body, a fatal flaw in the Jewish Community, and we should no...

Community and the American Jewish community was clearly much weaker than it should have been. And one of the conclusions that was arrived at was that while there were organizations and individuals who spoke out, there was not a united voice for the community and that fatal flaw must never happen again. And so our Jewish Community Relations Council, jcrc and others around the country were established to bring together the full diversity of the organized Jewish Community to develop consensus and t...

Good Tuesday morning and Happy New Year! In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on how a new nonprofit is using artificial intelligence to combat antisemitism online, and feature an opinion piece by Sarah Mali about on North American philanthropy’s evolving...

Weather records for Akron and Canton date back to 1867.

Only the second change in leadership in 37 years, it’s a rare changing of the guard at one of the Bay Area’s oldest Jewish institutions.

In our archives, Rabbi Doug Kahn learns new information about his great-grandfather, Rabbi Myer Sol Levy, who served in Bay Area congregations.

The Jewish News of Northern California

The decision, announced Monday in a press release and a two-page brochure that will go out to Jewish organizations, will free the JCPA to pursue liberal agenda items favored by American Jews.

The Jewish Council for Public Affairs will stop officially representing dozens of federations and instead run issue-based coalitions.

In our latest deep dive into the J. archives, we look at synagogue security and the summer of 1999, when three Sacramento-area synagogues were damaged by arson.