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Josh Cohen when he was a student at UC San Diego. (Photo/Courtesy UCSD Athletics)

How local soccer phenom Josh Cohen went from underdog to Israeli Footballer of the Year

by Gabe Fisher December 2, 2022December 5, 2022

Stow Lake today in Golden Gate Park. (Wikimedia/Brocken Inaglory)

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S.F. supes’ resolution urges renaming Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake, named for politician who proposed ‘Jew-tax’

by Gabe Fisher October 19, 2022October 19, 2022

Schlepping Home player Tom Howe in action. (Photo/Instagram @schleppinghome)

Schlepping Home: Jewish gay kickball team in S.F. wins games, and friends

by Gabe Fisher September 21, 2022September 21, 2022

Henry Lien (right) and fellow tutor Cesar Morales (left) react to students debating about what move to make, at San Pedro Elementary School, July 6, 2022. (Photo/Jeffrey Huang)

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Three years later, bar mitzvah boy’s gambit is still helping kids learn chess in San Rafael

by Gabe Fisher September 8, 2022September 8, 2022

Eric Reyzelman pitching for University of San Francisco early in his college career. (Photo/USF-Christina Leung)

Twice cut from his high school team, Jewish East Bay pitcher Eric Reyzelman has been drafted by the Yankees

by Gabe Fisher August 1, 2022August 1, 2022

Elie Kligman high fives with a child at Congregation Emek Beracha's event at Greer Park in Palo Alto, July 25, 2022.
(Photo/Gabe Fisher)

Orthodox ballplayer Elie Kligman brings his A game to Palo Alto synagogue kids

by Gabe Fisher July 28, 2022July 29, 2022

Stow Lake is named for William W. Stow, speaker of the Assembly in 1855 who railed against the state’s Jews. (Photos/Wikimedia Commons, Souvenir Evening Post; Collage/Gabriel Greschler)

Will antisemite’s name finally be stripped from Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park?

by Gabe Fisher July 25, 2022August 2, 2022

Alan Shipnuck (left, holding mic) asks Phil Mickelson a question at his 2022 U.S. Open press conference, which was his return to championship golf after going into exile because of Shipnuck's book excerpt. (Photo/Courtesy Shipnuck)

Bay Area sportswriter Alan Shipnuck’s new biography blows open the life of golf great Phil Mickelson

by Gabe Fisher July 21, 2022July 26, 2022

pederson on the field in a Giants uniform

Giants slugger Joc Pederson joins Team Israel for 2023 World Baseball Classic

by Gabe Fisher July 19, 2022July 19, 2022

Griffin Epstein (right) interviews players on the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters baseball team as part of his 2021 summer internship as a broadcaster for the Northwoods League.

Q&A: Reporter heading to Maccabiah Games in Israel sees sports as ‘uniting force’

by Gabe Fisher June 16, 2022