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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].

Director Claude Lanzmann approaches Treblinka, Poland, in 1978. (Courtesy Jewish Film Institute)
Posted inTV & Film

WinterFest returns in S.F. with Oscar nominee ‘The Sea’ and a look back at ‘Shoah’

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 9, 2026February 9, 2026
From left, Pearl E. Gates, "Weird Al" Yankovic and Pickles Kintaro talk backstage at a Weird Al concert. (Courtesy SF IndieFest)
Posted inFilm

This ‘Weird Al’ burlesque show becomes an unlikely path to healing

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 2, 2026February 4, 2026
Clockwise from top left: Jessica B. Peixotto in 1923 (J. Archives); Gluten-Free Upside-Down Caramel Apple Cake (Micah Siva); a photo posted to social media of eight teens lying in the shape of a swastika on a football field; Rabbi Shua Brick in the sanctuary at Oakland's Beth Jacob Congregation. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Our top 10 Bay Area Jewish news stories of 2025

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 29, 2025December 29, 2025
A new fence surrounds Congregation Beth Israel in Chico. (David Gayheart)
Posted inNorthern California

Good neighbors make good fence after antisemitic arson at Chico synagogue

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 24, 2025December 24, 2025
There are two Chinese joints around the corner from the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland! (Thomas Hawk via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)
Posted inFilm

Chinese food and a movie on Christmas? Here are our Bay Area recs

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 18, 2025December 18, 2025
Norman Fischer (back, left) and Rabbi Alan Lew (back, center) meditate at an early Makor Or event. (Courtesy)
Posted inReligion

What’s the sound of Jews sitting in silence? 25 years of meditation at Makor Or in S.F.

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 2, 2025December 2, 2025
Left: The original Temple Emanu-El, which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. Right: Portrait of Julie Rosewald from "A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches," 1893
Posted inFrom the Archives

Meet Madam Julie Rosewald, the world’s first woman cantor

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky October 21, 2025October 21, 2025
Rabbi Amanda Russell chants the opening lines of the Torah as an entire scroll is unrolled during the Simchat Torah celebration at Congregation Beth Sholom in San Francisco on Oct. 14. (David A.M. Wilensky/J. Staff)
Posted inJew in the Pew

Simchat Torah: ‘I need to dance with some Jews ASAP’

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky October 15, 2025October 15, 2025
David A.M. Wilensky wishes everyone a Happy Hanukkah before going up to help light the giant Union Square menorah in San Francisco, Dec. 29, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inFirst Person

Tylenol didn’t make me autistic — but autism made me a journalist

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky September 29, 2025September 30, 2025
People mingle in the remodeled courtyard of Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco during a reception celebrating the building's reopening, Sept. 12, 2025. The main sanctuary is to the left of the frame, while the stairs on the right lead down to the main entrance. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inReligion

Emanu-El celebrates end of $97M renovation project

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky September 16, 2025September 26, 2025

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