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Sue Fishkoff

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

Rabbi Yosef Langer (left) dances with his son Rabbi Moshe Langer during the elder Langer’s 79th birthday onboard the Historic Klamath in San Francisco, April 6, 2025. (Sue Fishkoff)
Posted inBay Area

At rabbi’s 79th birthday, Chabad of SF floats idea of cruises to educate the masses

by Sue Fishkoff April 7, 2025April 14, 2025
A rendering of the Berkeley Moshav. (Courtesy/Roger Studley)
Posted inBay Area

Ground-breaking Berkeley Moshav finally breaks ground after decadelong dream

by Sue Fishkoff March 25, 2025March 26, 2025
An SS officer shakes a dog’s paw. (Courtesy U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Posted inTheater

Candid photos of off-hours Nazis at Auschwitz inspired play at Berkeley Rep

by Sue Fishkoff March 12, 2025March 20, 2025
Theater director Evgenia "Zhenya" Berkovich (left) with her daughters. (Ira Polyarnaya)
Posted inBay Area

Bay Area emigre fights to free Jewish theater director imprisoned in Russia

by Sue Fishkoff March 6, 2025March 18, 2025
Camp Tawonga's garden at its peak during summer 2024. This summer a new Garden Kitchen will open next to the garden itself. (Courtesy)
Posted inKids & Family

The dirt on summer camps: Gardens, kid-focused kitchens grow in popularity

by Sue Fishkoff March 5, 2025March 9, 2025
Anti-Israel demonstrators yell at ticket holders entering Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley to see Batsheva, an Israeli dance troupe, on Feb. 23, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Protesters call for ‘intifada’ outside Israeli dance performances at UC Berkeley

by Sue Fishkoff February 24, 2025January 20, 2026
Newly ordained Rabbi Elizheva Hurvich is celebrated with a ritual led by kohenet Amanda Nube (left) in Hurvich's backyard in Oakland on Jan. 19, 2025. (Sue Fishkoff/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

What’s new with Jewish Renewal in the Bay Area?

by Sue Fishkoff February 19, 2025February 20, 2025
"Bashir," an Afghan man in his 40s who fled Afghanistan in 2018, reunited with his family in April 2022 at Chabad of Fremont. (Bonnie Kellogg)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish aid groups scramble to help refugees new to Bay Area in a fearful time

by Sue Fishkoff February 10, 2025February 11, 2025
A 2009 rally in solidarity with protesters in Iran at San Francisco City Hall. (Steve Rhodes via Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Posted inBay Area

Iranian Jewish refugee, 89, ‘grateful’ to reach Bay Area before U.S. borders shut 

by Sue Fishkoff February 5, 2025February 5, 2025
Abe Wischnia teaches an English language class for recent Ukrainian immigrants provided by Jewish Family Services Silicon Valley on Feb. 7, 2023. (Courtesy JFS SIlicon Valley)
Posted inBay Area

Local Jewish groups aiding refugees reel as borders shut and their funding is threatened

by Sue Fishkoff January 29, 2025January 31, 2025

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