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Lea Loeb

Lea Loeb is J.’s reporter focusing on San Francisco, Marin and the North Bay.

A still from "Tell Me Everything," the opening night film of the 2026 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. (Courtesy SFJFF)
Posted inFilm

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival’s 2026 lineup: 65 films and an award for Rachel Bloom

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb June 17, 2026July 6, 2026
Crossword constructor Adam Wagner holds his first puzzle published in the New York Times. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inCulture

Jewish crossword constructors across the Bay Area find clues to community

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb June 10, 2026June 15, 2026
Stanford security
Posted inBay Area

Jewish groups in Silicon Valley invited to apply for grants to cover security needs

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb May 28, 2026May 28, 2026
Former mayor of Sausalito Janelle Kellman (left) and former mayor of Novato Josh Fryday (right) are both Jewish candidates for lieutenant governor in the upcoming primary election on June 2. (Screenshots via Facebook/ Janelle Kellman, Josh Fryday)
Posted inPolitics

Two Jewish Bay Area ex-mayors are running for California lieutenant governor

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb May 26, 2026May 26, 2026
Mark Basta, who now works as the Arabic outreach manager for JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, at the United Nations as a member of a civil rights society in April 2025. Basta's face is blurred due to safety concerns for his remaining family in Egypt. (Courtesy)
Posted inThe J. Interview

Meet the Egyptian Copt who translates Jewish history for the Arab world 

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb May 21, 2026May 27, 2026
Yelena Asadov (right) and her grandmother, Musia Dimant,  who received care from Angel Palliative Care and Hospice in 2020. (Valentina Sidorova)
Posted inHealth

‘Deeply connected’: First local hospice earns certification for Jewish care

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb May 18, 2026May 19, 2026
Bay Area Jewish funeral home Sinai Memorial is co-hosting the May 12 event, which will explore how psychedelic-assisted therapy can help people facing serious illness, death and grief. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inIdeas

Jews examine psychedelic use in end-of-life care and grieving process

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb May 7, 2026May 15, 2026
A "smart mezuzah" designed by engineering student Tofic Esses won first place at the first annual Craig Exhibition of Jewish Engineering at UC Berkeley. (Courtesy)
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Light-up mezuzah snags first Jewish engineering prize at Cal

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb May 6, 2026May 6, 2026
Howard Reich looking through family photos. (Courtesy Verismo Communications)
Posted inMusic

New opera explores how Elie Wiesel helped a child of survivors begin to heal

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb May 4, 2026May 4, 2026
Adam Eilath, head of school at Wornick Jewish Day School in Foster City. (Courtesy Wornick Jewish Day School)
Posted inEducation

Heads of six Jewish schools say hello and goodbye in the Bay Area and beyond 

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 20, 2026April 21, 2026

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