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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].

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 18, 2022January 17, 2023
Bob Stein holds up the banner for recently formed Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in June 1979 during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. (Photo/Joe Altman-California Historical Society)
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Archives Week: How we covered — or didn’t cover — LGBTQ Jews over the years

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Sue Reinhold and Deb Newbrun were ordained as rabbis after two years of study with Pluralistic Rabbinic Seminary, a program for mid-career professionals who already have advanced Jewish knowledge and who are working in the Jewish community.
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Happenings, opportunities, comings & goings — Jan. 2022

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky January 25, 2022March 25, 2022
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10 years later, local journalist looks back on Occupy Wall Street’s impact

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 30, 2021January 4, 2022
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What you read this year: Our top 10 most popular stories of 2021

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 30, 2021January 5, 2022
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Happenings, comings & goings, opportunities — December 2021

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 29, 2021January 20, 2022
(From left) Eruv expert Rabbi Haim Jachter, Beth Jacob members Raphi Shorser and Michael Sosebee and Rabbi Gershon Albert out on an eruv boundary–hunting expedition in August.
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Major expansion of Oakland eruv is a ‘game-changer’ for Orthodox

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 6, 2021December 7, 2021
Sam Lauter with Joe Biden at the San Francisco home of Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Richard Blum, Oct. 3, 2019.  Lauter was recently elected to another term on the board of the Democratic Majority for Israel. (Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
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Honors, happenings, comings & goings, opportunities, philanthropy — Nov. 2021

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky November 30, 2021December 8, 2021
Scholar, blues guitarist and cantorial scion Jeremiah Lockwood's new album is “A Great Miracle: Jeremiah Lockwood’s Guitar Soli Hanukkah Album.”
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Jeremiah Lockwood’s new ‘Great Miracle’ album embraces Hanukkah nostalgia, sans shlock

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky November 5, 2021December 3, 2025
A shot of the golem and a little girl with a flower, seen here as it appears on the poster for "The Golem Rescored," was famously copied in the 1931 “Frankenstein” film.
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Reanimating ‘The Golem,’ horror cinema’s century-old urtext, just in time for Halloween

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