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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.

Oakland elementary school teacher Naomi Bernstein at a press conference at Montclair Elementary School, where parents, teachers and Jewish leaders spoke out against a statement on Gaza by the Oakland teachers union, Nov. 10, 2023. (Photo/Dan Ancona)
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Legal group seeks to prevent more pro-Palestinian teach-ins at Oakland schools

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss December 13, 2023December 13, 2023
Rimon Kirsht (left) hugs a family member after being released from Hamas captivity. (Photo/Courtesy Nil Kirscht)
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Released hostage’s ‘worst fear’ was being forgotten, Bay Area relative says

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss December 4, 2023
Oren Rubinstein, whose cousins Shiri and Noga Weiss have been released from Hamas captivity, stands in front of San Francisco City Hall holding a poster he printed in Spanish with information about Mexican nationals who were taken as hostages in the Oct. 7 attack. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
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‘They may heal someday’: Pacifica man’s cousins are among hostages released in Israel-Hamas truce

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 27, 2023
Cantor Barbara Powell (left) and musician Saul Kaye lead a song at a multifaith gathering in solidarity with Peninsula Jews at St. Bartholomew's Church in San Mateo, Nov. 18, 2023. (Photo/Courtesy PJCC)
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At multifaith vigil, Peninsula leaders express solidarity with Jewish neighbors

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 20, 2023November 20, 2023
Man standing wearing glasses
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With 7 dead or missing, the nightmare of Oct. 7 isn’t over for Pacifica man and his family

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 13, 2023November 16, 2023
Protesters from the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Jewish Voice for Peace and others attempt to block a ship from departing the Port of Oakland, one they believed was headed for Washington state to pick up military materiel for Israel. (Photo/Courtesy AROC)
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‘No U.S. military aid to Israel,’ say protesters as they block ship at Port of Oakland

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 3, 2023November 6, 2023
Demonstrators in Los Angeles protest Germany’s persecution of Jews in the aftermath of Kristallnacht in 1938. (Photo/Library of Congress)
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U.S. Holocaust museum exhibit coming to Fresno reveals what the U.S. knew and when

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 3, 2023November 3, 2023
A volunteer at Citrus and Salt in Tel Aviv, which is currently providing hundreds of meals a day to Israeli soldiers and displaced families. (Photo/Harry Ehrlich)
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Bay Area natives in Israel and Israelis in Bay Area pitch in

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss October 23, 2023October 25, 2023
Pro-Israel students rally at UC Berkeley, Oct. 10, 2023. (Photo/Ben Weiss-Ishai)
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A tense Berkeley campus reacts to Hamas massacre and war

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss October 19, 2023October 19, 2023
Ari (left) and Noah Hirson organized the Sept. 17 Alcatraz Swim for Sight. (Photo/Ezra Trost-Goldhammer)
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With Alcatraz swim, teen brothers raise $150,000 for blindness research in mom’s honor

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss October 18, 2023October 23, 2023

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