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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)

Emma Goss

Emma Goss is J.'s senior reporter. She is a Bay Area native and an alum of Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School and Kehillah Jewish High School. Emma also reports for NBC Bay Area. Follow her on Twitter @EmmaAudreyGoss.

Marco Troper (Photo/Courtesy of Susan Wojcicki)
Posted inObituaries

Marco Troper, math whiz and Hausner alum, dies at 19

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 5, 2024March 6, 2024
Small group of people tour a kibbutz
Posted inPolitics

State legislators visit a devastated kibbutz, meet with families of hostages

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 3, 2024March 6, 2024
Plywood covers a shattered door and window at Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Posted inNews

‘I’m screaming for help’: Jewish students face violence at UC Berkeley Israel talk

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)Gabe Stutman by Emma Goss, Maya Mirsky and Gabe Stutman February 27, 2024January 30, 2025
A banner reading "KKKaplan hates Muslims" hangs from an overpass in Sacramento. (Screenshot/Twitter)
Posted inCalifornia

Sacramento councilmember harassed at meeting and targeted at home for Gaza stance

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 5, 2024February 5, 2024
A crowd of East Bay Jews gathered in front Oakland’s Home of Eternity Jewish Cemetery on Saturday in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27. (Photo/Courtesy Nicki Gilbert)
Posted inBay Area

‘Never Again’ walk in East Bay honors Holocaust survivors, protests antisemitism

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 30, 2024January 31, 2024
Congregation Shir Shalom Hebrew school students before Shabbat in November. Parker and Brooklyn Mayer (wearing the hat and in pink) are the daughters of Christian Pastor Jason Mayer. (Photo/Courtesy Rabbi Steve Finley)
Posted inEducation

A Sonoma Hebrew School opens to non-Jews in bid to combat antisemitism

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 22, 2024January 23, 2024
Rebecca Feigelson is moving her son Jacob, 6, from the Oakland school district to Piedmont over anti-Zionist statements from the Oakland teachers union, seen in Oakland on Dec. 31, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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Citing safety, dozens of Jewish families are leaving Oakland public schools

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 11, 2024January 12, 2024
Lana the cat and
Rebekah Bzdick the human both work at Lombard Funeral Home, one of the primary funeral homes used by Sacramento-area Jews. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inJewish Life

Meet the Jewish funeral cats of Sacramento

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 10, 2024January 11, 2024
Several swastikas were found at Georgina P. Blach Intermediate School in Los Altos before winter break. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
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Two Bay Area middle schools respond to Nazi salutes, graffiti 

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss December 28, 2023
Daniel Morgan reads a book with his sons, 7-year-old Ori (left) and 8-year-old Tomer (right), in San Mateo; they are temporarily attending Wornick. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inBay Area

In search of ‘normal’ amid war, some Israelis are enrolling their kids in Bay Area schools

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss December 15, 2023December 27, 2023

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