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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.

Zahra Billoo speaks at the Jan. 2018 Women's March in San Francisco. (Photo/Wikimedia-Pax Ahimsa Gethen CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inNews

Zahra Billoo removed as keynote speaker at San Mateo women’s conference

by Emma Goss February 10, 2022February 10, 2022
Bonnie Slavitt in her newly remodeled kosher kitchen. (Photo/Emma Goss)
Posted inJewish Life

These Bay Area women are building the kosher kitchens of their dreams

by Emma Goss February 8, 2022November 2, 2022
Signs inside Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco remind congregants to keep locked doors closed at all times for safety. (Photo/Rabbi Abby Phelps)
Posted inBay Area

Local synagogues ramp up security training after Colleyville

by Emma Goss February 1, 2022February 2, 2022
Tobie Shapiro and her son, Meyshe Shapiro-Nygren, at home in Alameda. (Photo/Michael Fox)
Posted inNews

Jewish housing crisis: Aging parents fear for their special-needs kids

by Emma Goss January 21, 2022January 21, 2022
Sinai Memorial Chapel began life in 1901 as Hebrew Funeral Parlors.
Posted inBay Area

Growth spurt for Sinai funeral home as it marks 120 years

by Emma Goss January 6, 2022January 10, 2022
(From left) Nancy Federman, Chris Witzel and Diane Rolfe prepare postcard kits for distribution in the spring.
Posted inNews

Beth Am group thinks ‘fast’ in push for voting rights

by Emma Goss January 4, 2022
Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland held its first indoor service in a year, March 14, 2021.
Posted inBay Area

Facing omicron spike, Bay Area synagogues weigh their options

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Emma Goss and Maya Mirsky December 30, 2021January 5, 2022
Michael Fredericson at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Posted inSports

Q&A: He went to the Olympics on team doctor

by Emma Goss December 27, 2021December 28, 2021
Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld surveys the damage at the Chabad House in south San Jose, Dec. 2021. (Photo/Emma Goss)
Posted inBay Area

Fire destroys new Chabad synagogue in San Jose, spares Torahs

by Emma Goss December 23, 2021January 5, 2022
Challahs made by members of the Hardly Strictly Jewish Women’s Group. (Photo/June Bell)
Posted inJewish Life

This Jewish women’s group is ‘Hardly Strictly’ about challah

by Emma Goss December 16, 2021March 15, 2022

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