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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.

The pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA, which has since been disbanded, seen in May. (Jacob Gurvis/JTA)
Posted inCalifornia

Survey of four UC campuses breaks down anti-Jewish and anti-Israel attitudes

by Emma Goss July 15, 2024July 17, 2024
From left: Margo (Suzanna Papian) and Amitay (Adir Milller) in "The Monkey House." (SFJFF)
Posted inCulture

S.F. Jewish Film Festival: Israeli comedy ‘The Monkey House’ exudes ’80s nostalgia

by Emma Goss July 9, 2024July 10, 2024
Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups face off at Stanford University on May 12, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inBay Area

At Stanford, two differing reports detail antisemitism, Islamophobia since Oct. 7

by Emma Goss July 2, 2024July 2, 2024
UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ in 2017. (Courtesy UC Berkeley)
Posted inBay Area

Outgoing chancellor: Cal won’t divest from Israel, will invest in antisemitism education

by Emma Goss June 27, 2024June 28, 2024
Barbara Cymrot, pictured in the Castro District of San Francisco, was one of the first parents to join Sha'ar Zahav, San Francisco's LGBTQ synagogue. (Aaron-Levy Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inPride

LGBTQ synagogue Sha’ar Zahav, once reluctant to welcome children, embraces its third generation

by Emma Goss June 26, 2024July 1, 2024
Items for sale at Ankor include a hamsa clock and mezzuzot handcrafted by Israeli artists. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inJudaica

New Judaica store in Palo Alto JCC focuses on Israeli artists

by Emma Goss June 18, 2024July 17, 2024
Rabbi David Wolfe-Blank at the Aquarian Minyan's Shavuot gathering in 1994. (Photo/Yehudit Goldfarb)
Posted inReligion

As Aquarian Minyan marks 50 years, its spiritual influence is felt far and wide

by Emma Goss June 10, 2024June 23, 2024
A Palestinian flag was held aloft during a San Francisco rally on Oct. 28, 2023, that called for a cease-fire in Gaza. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inNews

San Francisco police arrest 70 protesters in Israeli Consulate building

by Emma Goss June 3, 2024June 11, 2024
Graffiti reading "Martyrs never die" and "Zionism is Nazism" was found inside a vacant building owned by UC Berkeley that was taken over by protesters in May 2024. (Photo/Courtesy JCRC)
Posted inBay Area

Anti-Zionists occupy condemned UC Berkeley building, vandalizing it with antisemitic graffiti

by Emma Goss May 16, 2024
Pro-Palestinian teachers in Oakland organized themselves early in the ongoing war. Here, a banner reads "Oakland Educators Say Fund Education, Not War on Gaza" at an Oakland Unified School District meeting on Nov. 9, 2023. (Photo/Courtesy anonymous)
Posted inNews

Fed-up Jewish families pull their kids out of Oakland schools midyear

by Emma Goss May 15, 2024May 17, 2024

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