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Sue Fishkoff

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

Man and woman stand with luggage in front of plane.
Posted inNews

Bay Area tourists leave Israel amid war over circuitous routes via Egypt, Jordan

by Sue Fishkoff June 23, 2025June 24, 2025
Tauba Weiss (left) sits with Jewish Family and Children's Services executive director Anita Friedman at a Yom HaShoah community commemoration in San Francisco in the 2010s. (Courtesy JFCS Holocaust Center)
Posted inObituaries

Tauba Weiss, Holocaust survivor and local activist, dies at 100

by Sue Fishkoff June 20, 2025June 20, 2025
Herzliya Beach
Posted inIsrael

Peninsula man coordinates war-time escapes by sea from his phone

by Sue Fishkoff June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
“Coexistence, My Ass!” is SFJFF's opening-night film. The documentary features former U.N. diplomat turned standup comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi examining her shifting perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Courtesy SFJFF)
Posted inFilm

45th SFJFF focuses on independent films that help ‘make sense of the moment’

by Sue Fishkoff June 17, 2025July 3, 2025
Israeli and U.S. flags fly in the breeze during a vigil on a freeway overpass in Lafayette on June 8 to draw attention to the plight of the hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza. (Sue Fishkoff)
Posted inBay Area

In Lafayette, a new layer of security at overpass vigil for hostages

by Sue Fishkoff June 9, 2025June 10, 2025
The gathering included a tour of the Stanford Central Energy Facility. (Rod Searcey/Stanford)
Posted inIdeas

At Stanford, experts talk ‘climate resilience’ from Tel Aviv to L.A.

by Sue Fishkoff June 3, 2025June 5, 2025
American-Israeli author and journalist Yossi Klein Halevi speaks at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, May 21, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inIdeas

Netanyahu must be ousted, Israeli thinker Yossi Klein Halevi says in S.F.

by Sue Fishkoff May 27, 2025May 27, 2025
An anti-Israel activist holds a cardboard sign that reads “Zionists are Nazis” as the Berkeley City Council discusses a Gaza cease-fire resolution on April 28, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Amid vitriol, Berkeley finally passes tepid resolution on Gaza

by Sue Fishkoff April 29, 2025April 30, 2025
If our digital archive goes offline, looking up local Jewish history could mean a visit to the physical bound volumes at our office. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Our digital archive is threatened by state budget cuts

by Sue Fishkoff April 23, 2025April 24, 2025
Offir Gutelzon in San Francisco rallies against proposed judicial changes during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the Bay Area in September 2023. (Courtesy Gili Getz)
Posted inBay Area

The Palo Alto expat who finds the threat to Israeli democracy ‘unXeptable’

by Sue Fishkoff April 17, 2025April 20, 2025

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