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David A.M. Wilensky

David A.M. Wilensky is associate editor at J. He previously served as digital editor. For more David, find him on Instagram, Letterboxd and League of Comic Geeks. And you can email David about anything you want at [email protected].

Cantor Toby Glaser rehearses a prerecorded High Holiday service at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, Aug. 2020. (Photo/Michael Fox)
Posted inJewish Life

Prerecorded services, backyard worship, a drive-in: finding new ways to uphold tradition this High Holiday season

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 20, 2020August 20, 2020
illustration of the front of a beige building with an entrance on the right
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Renovation of historic S.F. synagogue slowed but not halted

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky July 15, 2020July 16, 2020
Winning issues of J. in the categories of  Excellence in Overall Graphic Design and General Excellence.
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J. wins record-breaking 12 national Jewish press awards, including General Excellence

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky July 2, 2020July 8, 2020
Carol Saal (Photo/Norm Levin)
Posted inOur Crowd

Honors, happenings, comings & goings — July 2020

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky July 2, 2020
Noam Sienna is the author of “A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969.”
Posted inPride

A treasure trove of LGBTQ texts from two millennia of Jewish history

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky June 29, 2020July 8, 2020
Rose Hayes lights a rainbow of candles at a past Pride Seder at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav. 
Posted inReligion

‘Pride Seder,’ virtual this year, honors liberation history of LGBTQ Jews 

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky June 19, 2020June 22, 2020
The Kehillah Jewish High School's Moot Beit Din team making their case.
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Kehillah high school team wins national ‘Moot Beit Din’

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky June 1, 2020
The light-filled sanctuary of Kol Shofar in Tiburon (Photo/HCLA)
Posted inBay Area, Columns, Religion, Jew in the Pew, Jewish Life, News

Shabbat online? Conservative synagogues get OK, but some were already doing it

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 25, 2020May 26, 2020
Rabbi Jennie Chabon and her son Ezra perform in a video for the Contra Costa Jewish Day School gala.
Posted inOur Crowd

Honors, happenings, comings & goings — May, 2020

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 25, 2020May 25, 2020
The line for a San Francisco Jewish Film Festival screening in 2013 (Photo/from file)
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Jewish Film Institute receives emergency grant from motion picture academy

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 18, 2020May 19, 2020

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