Aug. 29, 1970
From “Not a kosher restaurant in town”
San Francisco has a worldwide reputation for having outstanding restaurants but for 15 years there has not been one serving a kosher meal. And there are only two kosher butcher shops.
Rabbi Meyer Frankel, supervisor for the Board of Kashruth in the greater Bay Area told the Bulletin that the amount of meat and poultry being slaughtered for kosher use had dropped considerably in recent years.
“Cohen’s on Geary is the only place poultry for kosher consumption is slaughtered, although several markets carry frozen koshered chickens.
“There are no kosher butchers down the Peninsula, Marin County or in Sacramento. Fifteen years ago San Francisco had two kosher restaurants and today not a one,” said the Rabbi.
When asked whether many young people keep kosher after they marry, he said, “Recently an influx of young marrieds from Eastern cities have seen a few more kosher homes in San Francsico.”
San Francisco had eight butcher shops in 1935 and today the only two are operated by the Cohen brothers, Harry and Bill.
Aug. 24, 1990
From “Women rabbis pick family life over big synagogues, big bucks”
Despite findings that there is discrimination against Reform women rabbis in hiring, salary and promotion, most women in Bay Area pulpits wouldn’t take a larger congregation at any price.
They prefer the intimacy of smaller congregations instead — and the flexibility they have to raise a family at the same time. Others find the same advantage by taking assistant or associate positions under senior rabbis in large congregations.
Rabbi Gayle Pomerantz, who has for the past year been assistant rabbi at the 1,600-family Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco, suggested that due to family issues, “women have less of a tendency toward career-track thinking” than men.
A recently released 10-year national study conducted by the Central Conference of American Rabbis — the Reform movement’s rabbinical body — has found that women are not being hired as senior rabbis of larger, more prestigious congregations, and are disproportionately represented in part-time positions.
In surveying some 700 pulpit rabbis, including 123 women in the past year’s sample, the study also found that “males and females attain similar positions and receive similar salaries upon ordination [but] women do not move up the placement ladder at the same pace as men.”
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