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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.

The preschool at Congregation Beth Ami in Santa Rosa. (Photo/Courtesy)
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Storm damage shutters long-running Santa Rosa synagogue preschool indefinitely

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 27, 2023March 29, 2023
San Jose Fire Station 3, where Casilia Loessberg used to work. (Photo/San Jose Fire Department)
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Ex–firefighter’s lawsuit says her superior was a ‘known Nazi sympathizer’

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 21, 2023March 22, 2023
Attendees of a Wilderness Torah gathering for Sukkot perform a version of the ancient Simchat Beit Hashoeivah ritual in 2022. (Julia Maryanska/Courtesy Wilderness Torah)
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Facing shortfall, Wilderness Torah launches emergency fundraiser

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 16, 2023March 19, 2023
Ari Shapiro reporting in Colombia. (Photo/NPR-Ryan Kellman)
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NPR’s Ari Shapiro considers many things, from Judaism to journalism, in new memoir

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 15, 2023March 16, 2023
The Leviathan Jewish Journal debuted in 1972. (Photo/Leviathan Jewish Journal Archive)
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Started as a Jewish hippie journal, UC Santa Cruz’s Leviathan turns 50

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 28, 2023March 6, 2023
(From left) Josef Paldus-Farmwald with his Moldaw buddies, Manny and Bee Cherkas, Jan. 18, 2023. (Photo/Sarah Sherwood)
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Buddy program between Hausner teens, Moldaw seniors is a ‘win-win’

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 8, 2023February 15, 2023
Zachary Nelson, seen here hiking in Israel in 2022, was a devoted pro-Israel activist.
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Zachary Nelson, 27, pro-Israel activist from Alameda, dies in diving accident

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 6, 2023February 7, 2023
A JewBelong billboard at  San Pablo Ave. and Hearst St. in Berkeley had the words "Free Palestine!" spray-painted on it. (Photo/Courtesy JewBelong)
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Provocative JewBelong billboards vandalized with ‘Free Palestine’ in Berkeley

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 23, 2023January 24, 2023
State Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco addresses the State Senate. (Photo/California State Senate Democratic Caucus)
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Bill backed by Wiener and Jewish groups would give caseworkers extra time to help refugees

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 23, 2023January 23, 2023
Singer dances in the center of a group of women, smiling and hosting a Torah scroll up over her head
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Israel’s new right-wing Knesset troubles Bay Area supporters

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

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