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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 High Holiday service at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. (Photo/File)
Posted inBay Area

Amid a wave of hoax bomb threats, here’s how local synagogues are ramping up security for High Holidays

by Emma Goss September 13, 2023September 13, 2023
G.K. and J.B., age 5, working on collage art on the first day of JCC Sonoma County's new preschool. (Courtesy)
Posted inNews

New Jewish preschool opens in Sonoma County after another’s collapse

by Emma Goss September 12, 2023May 30, 2024
Burned out remains of cars line a street in Lahaina, Hawaii. (Photo/Courtesy Rabbi Mendel Zirkind)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Maui fire relief includes $1M from Bay Area’s Taube Philanthropies

by Emma Goss September 11, 2023September 12, 2023
Members of UC Berkeley's chapter of the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi outside their house on Piedmont Ave. in Berkeley. (Photo/Instagram @cal.aepi)
Posted inNews

UC Berkeley’s Jewish frat wasn’t the only fraternity targeted in shellfish dump

by Emma Goss August 31, 2023September 1, 2023
The AEPi house at UC Berkeley, the grounds of which were recently strewn with shellfish in an apparent antisemitic act. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inBay Area

UPDATED: Shellfish dumped on UC Berkeley’s Jewish frat house on first Shabbat of semester

by Emma Goss August 28, 2023August 30, 2023
Rabbi Dan Goldblatt
Posted inBay Area

Danville’s Beth Chaim opts for Reform after 45 unaffiliated years

by Emma Goss August 18, 2023August 24, 2023
Asa, an 8-year-old Jewish boy, was hit by a stray bullet in Oakland last month. (Photo/GoFundMe)
Posted inBay Area

8-year-old Jewish boy hit with stray bullet in Oakland is paralyzed

by Emma Goss August 15, 2023August 16, 2023
Ken Sims (right) returns the ball while Susan Sims looks on during a game of pickleball at the University Club in Palo Alto, July 30, 2023.  (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins).
Posted inSports

‘Kosher dills’: Jews can’t get enough of pickleball, so JCCs are making room

by Emma Goss August 7, 2023August 16, 2023
Larry Griffin protesting at the “Disrupt Inequality Rally” alongside local members of local labor unions in front of San Francisco City Hall. (Photo/Brooke Anderson)
Posted inNews

Larry Griffin, S.F. civic and labor leader, was a ‘mensch’s mensch’

by Emma Goss July 25, 2023
Executive Director Rabbi Matt Rosenberg in the dinning room at the Albert Einstein Residence Center in Sacramento, July 12, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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Sacramento Jewish community selling its low-income senior housing as Jewish population dwindles

by Emma Goss July 20, 2023January 7, 2026

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