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Dan Pine

Dan Pine is a contributing editor at J. He was a longtime staff writer at J. and retired as news editor in 2020.

Debbie Togliatti hands preschoolers fresh peas from the garden. (Courtesy OFJCC)
Posted inBay Area

Inch by inch, this ‘gardenista’ helped preschoolers grow at the Palo Alto JCC

by Dan Pine June 16, 2026June 16, 2026

After 40 bloomin’ years on the job, Debbie Togliatti is hanging up her trowel.  The gardening specialist at the Oshman Family JCC preschool — or, as she calls herself, “gardenista” […]

Rita Semel on her 104th birthday, sitting in her room at Rhoda Goldman Plaza in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inObituaries

Rita Semel, interfaith activist and S.F. Jewish leader, dies at 104

by Dan Pine May 14, 2026May 14, 2026
Rabbi Sydney Mintz joined Congregation Emanu-El’s staff in 1997, just after her ordination from the Reform movement’s seminary. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Rabbi Sydney Mintz to step down after 29 years at Emanu-El. She’s not going anywhere.

by Dan Pine May 12, 2026May 13, 2026
Shopkeeper Harry Diller stands inside Diller’s Kosher Restaurant in San Francisco's Fillmore District around 1940. (The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish Fillmore back in the spotlight as S.F. seeks to undo ’60s ‘urban renewal’

by Dan Pine April 6, 2026April 10, 2026
Participants gather under redwoods at an event of Wilderness Torah, which is now  Adamah SF. (Mitchel Davidowitz/Courtesy Wilderness Torah)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish Green Business Network to co-host summit during Climate Week SF

by Dan Pine April 1, 2026April 2, 2026
Niko Ustin, then a teenager at Hawken School, presents the learning management software he built for his high school near Cleveland, Ohio. (Courtesy)
Posted inBay Area

Stanford students pitch startups with social impact in Hillel contest for $30,000

by Dan Pine March 12, 2026March 12, 2026
State Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco (top left) stands on the scaffolding ahead of the Bill Graham Menorah lighting ceremony in 2021. (Courtesy Bill Graham Menorah)
Posted inHanukkah

Chabad of SF lights a torch to celebrate 50 years of the Bill Graham Menorah

by Dan Pine December 4, 2025December 5, 2025
Rob Kutner's book "The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting" is published by Wicked Sons. (Courtesy)
Posted inOn Stage

Comedy writer Rob Kutner romps through 5,000 years of Jewish history

by Dan Pine November 18, 2025November 18, 2025
Daniel Chesir (right), one of the co-founders of Sha'ar Zahav, San Francisco’s only LGBTQIA+ synagogue, with his husband, Stefan Rowniak. (Courtesy Sha’ar Zahav)
Posted inObituaries

‘He was our anchor’: Sha’ar Zahav co-founder Daniel Chesir dies at 83

by Dan Pine November 5, 2025November 6, 2025
woman at dais raising arm and fist
Posted inBay Area

Israeli LGBTQ activists coming to S.F. with worrisome update on rights there

by Dan Pine November 4, 2025November 4, 2025

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