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Sue Fishkoff

Sue Fishkoff is the editor emerita of J. She can be reached at [email protected].

Yoav Potash films Aaron Tartakovsky outside Gniewoszów City Hall in June 2017 for the film "Among Neighbors." (Sue Barnett/J. Staff)
Posted inFilm

Polish leaders attack Berkeley filmmaker’s Holocaust doc, open inquiry

by Sue Fishkoff November 26, 2025December 9, 2025
American novelist Philip Roth in 1967. (Bernard Gotfryd via Wikimedia/Library of Congress)
Posted inBooks

New biography: Philip Roth cared about more than sex

by Sue Fishkoff November 11, 2025November 11, 2025
Author Sarah Hurwitz gives the keynote address during the opening plenary at the Z3 Conference at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, Nov. 9, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

A lighter mood at Z3, as the focus turns to renewal and rebuilding

by Sue Fishkoff November 10, 2025November 10, 2025
Netzach Educational Network President Rabbi Menachem Bombach (left) talks to philanthropist Moses Libitzky (right) at the Z3 Conference at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, Nov. 9, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Israeli panelists at Z3: To fix a fractured society, just show up

by Sue Fishkoff November 10, 2025November 10, 2025
Woman and man seated.
Posted inBay Area

It’s about life vs. death, not Jew vs. Arab, says Bedouin surgeon in S.F. talk

by Sue Fishkoff November 7, 2025November 7, 2025
Adults sitting in circle listen to speaker
Posted inBay Area

Russian speakers in Palo Alto are getting the tools to become Jewish leaders

by Sue Fishkoff October 20, 2025October 21, 2025
Oct 12 2025 hostage rally
Posted inBay Area

Rallying for the hostages — up to the very last day 

by Sue Fishkoff October 13, 2025October 13, 2025
Janina Jaworska is featured in "Among Neighbors." (Courtesy of 8 Above)
Posted inFilm

Bay Area-linked documentary about post-war Polish village reveals dark secrets

by Sue Fishkoff October 10, 2025October 11, 2025
Holocaust survivors Esther and Zygmunt Binder, the author's parents, in Detroit in 1975. (Courtesy)
Posted inBooks

A little-known Polish story comes to life in bestselling memoir

by Sue Fishkoff October 8, 2025October 9, 2025
Makom Shalom — aka the Forest Synagogue of West Sonoma County — is the most recent addition to the local communities inspired by Earth-based Judaism and Jewish Renewal. (Courtesy Makom Shalom)
Posted inReligion

A ‘Forest Synagogue’ grows in Sonoma County

by Sue Fishkoff September 19, 2025September 20, 2025

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