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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.

Israeli teen emissaries with the ShinShinim program, Noa Herman (second from left) and Nir Chen (right), having lunch with students at Wornick Jewish Day School in Foster City.
Posted inEducation

Teen emissaries bring Israel to Bay Area students, gain appreciation for U.S. Judaism

by Dan Pine March 9, 2022March 9, 2022
A scene from "Image of Victory."
Posted inCulture

East Bay Jewish film fest: An Egyptian journalist, a young mother and a defeat in early Israel

by Dan Pine March 9, 2022March 30, 2022
Man with white beard
Posted inUncategorized, Obituaries

Paul Cohen, 74, LGBTQ advocate and giant in Jewish community

by Dan Pine February 25, 2022March 1, 2022
A group gathers around the Torah at Congregation Beth Sholom, led by Rabbi Alan Lew (third from right, facing Torah) in 1994. (Photo/Phil Head)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Forward-looking Beth Sholom looks back at 100 years of progress

by Dan Pine February 18, 2022
Eugen Engel in the 1930s at the composer's monument in the Tiergarten park in Berlin.
Posted inTheater

Rediscovered in a basement, Jewish composer’s prewar opera will now be staged in Germany

by Dan Pine February 7, 2022February 8, 2022
Leon Rajninger was born in Czernowitz, Romania in 1931 and was 10 years old when the Nazis invaded in 1941.
Posted inBay Area

Diplomats join local survivor for Holocaust Remembrance Day event

by Dan Pine January 28, 2022
Nurse and activist Jennifer Esteen is running for Assembly in the East Bay.
Posted inNews

Jennifer Esteen, nurse and Assembly candidate, wants to break barriers and fix what’s broken

by Dan Pine January 12, 2022January 13, 2022
Rita Semel speaking at her 100th birthday celebration at San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El, Nov. 23, 2021. (Photo/Dan Pine)
Posted inNews

S.F. faith and political leaders honor Rita Semel, centenarian ‘still leading by example,’ at interfaith Thanksgiving service

by Dan Pine November 24, 2021November 24, 2021
A white card reads: "What do you fear is more harmful to Jews in the 2020s? A. The patriarchy. B. The cost of Jewish education. C. Taking the Pew Report seriously. D. Chocolate hummus."
Posted inHanukkah

Test your Jewish cred in new party game Jewish Card Revoked

by Dan Pine November 3, 2021November 10, 2021
Joy Sisisky will serve as the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund's interim CEO starting Dec. 31, 2021.
Posted inPhilanthropy

In a time of global suffering, Federation sees growth in Jewish giving

by Dan Pine October 14, 2021October 14, 2021

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