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After vote to support Israel boycott, Jewish families question if students will feel safe By Jill Tucker and Emma Talley The San Francisco teachers union turned its attention away from city schools and toward international conflict, calling for a boycott of Israel in a strongly worded statement that has angered some families and outraged Jewish organizations. Union leadership voted in mid-May to endorse a boycott, as well as official U.S. divestment and sanctions against Israel over what they called apartheid and war crimes against the Palestinian people. A prominent synagogue...

Skip to main content After S.F. teachers union vote to support Israel boycott, Jewish families question if students will feel safe FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Guest speakers chat under posters for activist organizations during a workshop for San Francisco teens learning how to become activists in their own community just before a surprise visit from former Vice President Joe Biden who later address a crowd in conjunction with his new book, at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, January 9, 2018.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2o...

 E-Mail COLUMBUS, Ohio - The symptoms of grief people feel for a loved one facing a life-limiting illness fluctuate over time, a new study found - suggesting that individuals can adjust to their emotional pain, but also revealing factors that can make pre-loss grief more severe. Researchers examined changes in the severity of pre-loss grief symptoms in people whose family members had either advanced cancer or dementia. The study is the first to document pre-loss grief at two points in time, and found that about 70% of participants' symptoms decreased over a month. However, compared to initi...

Suicide Risk Prediction Tools Fail People of Color By Batya Swift Yasgur, MA May 7, 2021 -- Current models used to predict suicide risk fall short for certain populations including Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), new research shows. Investigators developed two suicide prediction models to examine whether these types of tools are accurate. They found both prediction models failed to identify high-risk BIPOC individuals. In the first model, nearly half of the visits followed by suicide were identified in white patients versus only 7% of visits followed by suicide in BIPOC ...

Date Time Study looks at factors that influence pre-loss grief COLUMBUS, Ohio – The symptoms of grief people feel for a loved one facing a life-limiting illness fluctuate over time, a new study found – suggesting that individuals can adjust to their emotional pain, but also revealing factors that can make pre-loss grief more severe. Researchers examined changes in the severity of pre-loss grief symptoms in people whose family members had either advanced cancer or dementia. The study is the first to document pre-loss grief at two points in time, and found that about 70% of participants’...