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The graffiti included a swastika and other symbols. At the request of the congregation, J. has agreed to blur some of it. (Photo/Courtesy)

News

Swastika spray-painted on Peninsula Sinai Congregation in Foster City

by Dan Pine June 21, 2023June 23, 2023

Jay Rosenblatt and daughter Ella, 17, in 2018 from his film "How Do You Measure A Year?"

Film

‘How Do You Measure a Year?’ Oscar-nominated documentary of S.F. girl’s time-lapse childhood comes to HBO

by Dan Pine June 21, 2023June 21, 2023

Meira Academy is housed at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. (Photo/meiraacademy.org)

Facing low enrollment, the Bay Area’s only all-girls Orthodox school will close next year

by Dan Pine June 14, 2023

Darrell Steinberg at Sac Gives Back, a weekend of community service created by his office, in December of 2016. (Photo/Roderick Cooney Photography)

Northern California

Darrell Steinberg, Sacramento’s popular Jewish mayor, is ready for a different challenge

by Dan Pine June 2, 2023June 6, 2023

Performance of the Kovno ghetto orchestra. (Photo/Courtesy US.. Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Music

‘Songs of Truth’ brings music of composers slain in Holocaust to Bay Area

by Dan Pine May 22, 2023May 22, 2023

(From left) Kaitlin Brennan, Gabby Powell, Portia Kadlecek and Hannah Coleman celebrate their belated b'nai mitzvahs at Emanu-El. (Photo/Courtesy Lori Coleman)

At Emanu-El, pandemic b’nai mitzvah teens finally get to party like it’s 2019

by Dan Pine May 15, 2023May 16, 2023

Don Chaiken, dedicated East Bay philanthropist, dies at 86

by Dan Pine May 15, 2023May 15, 2023

The Ferris Wheels, with Rabbi Yehuda Ferris front and center, plays at the Bay Street Mall menorah lighting in Emeryville in 2021. (Photo/Courtesy)

Music

The Ferris Wheels, a Chabad rabbi’s cover band, mix classic rock with Jewish ruach

by Dan Pine May 11, 2023May 12, 2023

Environmentalist and former Member of Knesset Alon Tal at a May 7 rally in Sunnyvale against Israel's proposed judicial reform organized by the Israeli expat group UnXeptable. (Photo/Galit Lipsitz Goldenthal)

News

Alon Tal, former MK and Israeli environmentalism pioneer, has strong words for Israel today

by Dan Pine May 10, 2023May 10, 2023

Yom HaAtzmaut celebration at Congregation Emanu El in San Francisco, May 1, 2017. (File photo)

Even in crisis, Israel at 75 deserves celebration, local planners say

by Dan Pine April 20, 2023