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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.

Rabbi Chayva Lehrman  (Photo/Emma Goss)
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Chayva Lehrman, the new rabbi at newly merged Am Tikvah, has been dreaming of this day

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss June 22, 2023
Vi poses in Battery Park in New York City, dressed as her great-great-grandmother Carolina in 1881. (Photo/Courtesy)
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Watch this Oakland YouTuber recreate her great-great-grandmother’s Shabbat dress

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss June 19, 2023June 21, 2023
Rabbi Nico Socolovsky at Congregation Shir Hasash in Los Gatos. (Photo/Emma Goss)
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Argentine native brings global perspective as Shir Hadash rabbi

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss June 8, 2023
University of San Francisco in Nov. 2022. (Photo/Flickr-Michael Fraley CC BY 2.0)
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Want be a ‘JEDI’? USF to offer first grad program in Jewish studies and social justice

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 31, 2023
Incoming Weinberg Foundation board chair  Paula Pretlow (fourth from left) and Federation CEO Joy Sisisky (right of Pretlow) with an Ethiopian family making aliyah to Israel.
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Bay Area leaders join one of the last flights of Ethiopians to Israel

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 25, 2023May 25, 2023
San Francisco Mayor London Breed poses overlooking the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem, May 2023. (Photo/Dan Garon)
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S.F. Mayor London Breed gets expansive view of Israel, from Haifa to Jerusalem

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 22, 2023May 24, 2023
Blowing the shofar for religious school students at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. (Photo/Facebook-Congregation Emanu-El)
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How a national drop in religious school attendance is affecting Bay Area Jews

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 11, 2023May 12, 2023
Wilderness Torah's signature annual event, Passover in the Desert, drew its biggest crowd yet to the Mojave Desert, April 5-10, 2023. (Photo/Julia Maryanska)
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‘We passed through that storm’: Wilderness Torah raises enough to keep going

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 18, 2023April 18, 2023
The damaged and leaky ceiling in one of Beth Ami's preschool classrooms on March 23. According to the former staffer who took the photo, it has looked like this since Jan. 9.
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Mass resignations and health concerns led to Beth Ami preschool closure, parents and staff say

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 11, 2023April 12, 2023
a black and white photo of Dianne Feinstein lighting a menorah
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With retirement on the horizon, a look at Dianne Feinstein’s Jewish legacy

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 31, 2023April 4, 2023

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