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Jo Ellen Green Kaiser is the CEO of J. The Jewish News of Northern California.

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Schlok’s new shop. And hold my schmear: J.’s bagel taste test

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Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Schlok’s Bagels recently opened a large shop in downtown San Francisco at 315 California St., the San […]

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Israel’s sanctions on Haaretz offer a warning and a lesson

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Rabbi Michael Lerner, a religious and political visionary, never stopped believing

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Rabbi Michael Lerner in the Interfaith Coalition tent at Occupy Oakland in 2011. (Photo/B Hartford J Strong via Flickr CC BY 2.0)
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What losing Tikkun means to me — and to the rest of the Jewish world

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Jo Ellen Green Kaiser by Jo Ellen Green Kaiser October 30, 2023October 30, 2023
The Schneerson Center, a synagogue serving mainly Russian-speaking Jews in San Francisco, was the site of an incident in which a man fired several blanks from a gun. (Photo/Google Maps)
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