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Emma Goss

Emma Goss is J.'s senior reporter. Her reporting is focused on the South Bay and the Peninsula. She is a Bay Area native and an alum of Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School and Kehillah Jewish High School. Follow her on Instagram @oh_emmag.

a billboard on a rural highway says "call me Zionist. It only makes me prouder"
Posted inUncategorized

Pro-Israel billboards are latest salvo in roadside rivalry

by Emma Goss February 4, 2025February 4, 2025
Joanne and Bernie Arfin. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inSuch a Match!

‘Such a Match!’ episode 3: The journalist who got scooped

by Emma Goss February 4, 2025February 4, 2025
Protester holds Hamas sign
Posted inNorthern California

Rabbis denounce Jewish security CEO’s call to deport non-citizens who ‘support terror’

by Emma Goss January 28, 2025February 1, 2025
Janet Silver-Ghent and Allen Podell pose for a photograph at their home in Palo Alto, July 15, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inSuch a Match!

A staff member puts a personals ad in J. — and sparks fly

by Emma Goss January 28, 2025January 28, 2025
Emma Goss and Héber Cruz Berber have a love story of their own. After a long engagement, they will marry in February.
Posted inPodcasts

‘Such a Match!’ podcast — a passion project hosted by a hopeless romantic

by Emma Goss January 18, 2025January 22, 2025
This scorched chumash, which contains the Torah and Haftarah in book form, was found in the ruins of the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center. It opened to a painfully relevant passage from Chapter 19 of I Kings, the Haftarah for Parashat Pinchas. (Courtesy Laurence Harris)
Posted inCalifornia

With wildfires untamed, anguished L.A. communities carry on with Jewish life

by Emma Goss January 13, 2025January 14, 2025
Col. Peter Gleichenhaus carries one Congregation B'nai Emunah's Torah scrolls during a June 2023 ceremony to deconsecrate the congregation's building as it merged with Congregation Beth Israel Judea. (Courtesy Coco Romano Giordano)
Posted inObituaries

‘Col. Pete’ Gleichenhaus, a community hero to many, dies at 85

by Emma Goss January 8, 2025January 8, 2025
The entrance to a parking lot, with a sign that says "Menlo-Atherton High School Main Entrance"
Posted inEducation

‘They couldn’t care less about me’: Details of Peninsula schools antisemitism lawsuit

by Emma Goss January 6, 2025January 7, 2025
a headshot of the author, a grey-haired man wearing glasses, next to the cover of his book
Posted inBooks

‘My Brother’s Keeper’: UCSF psychiatrist diagnoses the mental health industry in new book

by Emma Goss December 31, 2024January 7, 2025
Lara Kiswani (center), executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, speaks in the San Francisco City Hall rotunda on Jan. 9, 2024, during efforts to pass a Gaza cease-fire resolution. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Anti-Zionist org gets $100K grant as Walter and Elise Haas Fund changes direction

by Emma Goss December 16, 2024December 17, 2024

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