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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.

Class at Danny Zelig's Krav Maga studio in San Francisco. (Photo/Danny Zelig-Tactica Krav Maga Institute)
Posted inNews

Amid anti-AAPI violence, some Asians are turning to Krav Maga, the Israeli martial arts system

by Emma Goss December 10, 2021December 10, 2021
Stanford University students in Jerusalem on a Birthright Israel trip in 2017.
Posted inNews

Omicron variant scuttles major Stanford Israel trip as borders close 

by Emma Goss December 7, 2021December 7, 2021
Smile aside, Emma Goss was disappointed by the "Hanukkah Lights" night at Filoli House and Gardens in Woodside.
Posted inOpinion

I went to this glitzy event expecting Hanukkah lights, but I got bubkes  

by Emma Goss December 2, 2021December 3, 2021
In this session at the Z3 conference in Palo Alto, Nov. 10, 2019, Stanford Hillel students led round table conversations asking participants how they would have handled real-life campus situations. (Photo/Courtesy Z3)
Posted inBay Area

Palo Alto JCC’s Z3 Conference back with ‘futuristic’ bent

by Emma Goss November 30, 2021
Public menorah lighting in Tiburon, Nov. 28. (Photo/Instagram @ecachette)
Posted inNews

Nextdoor gripes aside, Tiburon now has its own town menorah

by Emma Goss November 30, 2021
Garbage and abandoned shopping carts litter the underpass under I-80 in Emeryville, where homeless people often sleep, Nov. 21, 2021.(Photo/Fran Quittel)
Posted inBay Area

She contacted Caltrans 75 times to clean up a dirty I-80 off-ramp

by Emma Goss November 23, 2021November 24, 2021
Yotam Nahum of Sunnyvale gets a breather while on duty in the IDF.
Posted inNews

Meet the Nahums: These three Bay Area siblings proudly serve in the IDF

by Emma Goss November 22, 2021
The Temple Judea building on Brotherhood Way, seen here around the time of its completion in 1964, is now home to Congregation Beth Israel Judea as well as Or Shalom Jewish Community. (Photo/Courtesy Congregation Beth Israel Judea)
Posted inUncategorized

Newly merged S.F. synagogues announce new name: Am Tikvah

by Emma Goss November 19, 2021November 19, 2021
Outside the SOMA Chabad, Oct. 25 2021. (Photo/Rabbi Moshe Langer)
Posted inNews

A homeless encampment crowded an S.F. synagogue. Its removal came with remorse.

by Emma Goss November 16, 2021November 17, 2021
Participants in a "United Against Hate" walk head toward the Los Gatos Civic Center on Nov. 14, 2021. (Photo/Carlos Nuñez)
Posted inBay Area, News

Big crowd in Los Gatos marches against hate, antisemitism

by Emma Goss November 16, 2021

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