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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.

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

by Emma Goss December 15, 2023December 27, 2023
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)
Posted inUncategorized

Legal group seeks to prevent more pro-Palestinian teach-ins at Oakland schools

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)
Posted inNews

Released hostage’s ‘worst fear’ was being forgotten, Bay Area relative says

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)
Posted inNews

‘They may heal someday’: Pacifica man’s cousins are among hostages released in Israel-Hamas truce

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)
Posted inBay Area

At multifaith vigil, Peninsula leaders express solidarity with Jewish neighbors

by Emma Goss November 20, 2023November 20, 2023
Man standing wearing glasses
Posted inBay Area, Israel, News

With 7 dead or missing, the nightmare of Oct. 7 isn’t over for Pacifica man and his family

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

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)
Posted inNews

U.S. Holocaust museum exhibit coming to Fresno reveals what the U.S. knew and when

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)
Posted inBay Area

Bay Area natives in Israel and Israelis in Bay Area pitch in

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

by Emma Goss October 19, 2023October 19, 2023

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