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Around the Bay

The American flag proudly waves on a flagpole against a clear blue sky, symbolizing freedom and patriotism.
Posted inJewish Life

Where to celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month around the Bay

by J. Staff May 19, 2025May 19, 2025
Joy Sisisky (left) and Eileen Ruby at the 2025 Chapman Award luncheon, May 2, 2025. (John Baker)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Former Federation board chair Eileen Ruby receives Chapman Award

by J. Staff May 19, 2025May 19, 2025
Miss Gefilte Fish, also known as Noah Zweben, tries on polarized glasses that make lights look like Stars of David during Value Culture’s Jewish American Heritage Month kickoff event at the California Academy of Sciences, May 15, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inCulture

S.F. Jewish Week kicks off at Cal Academy with henna, rap, an aerialist — and pickle juice

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi May 16, 2025May 19, 2025
Israeli journalist and author Amir Tibon (right) interviewed by Larry Diamond (left) at Stanford University, May 12, 2025. (Rod Searcey)
Posted inBooks

War must end to save hostages, journalist Amir Tibon tells Stanford crowd

by Emma Goss May 16, 2025May 17, 2025
Still image of Harvey Milk featured in "The Times of Harvey Milk." A 40th anniversary screening of the 1984 documentary is part of a series of events commemorating what would have been Milk's 95th birthday.
Posted inJewish Life

Where to celebrate Harvey Milk Day: Honoring the gay Jewish icon’s 95th birthday

by J. Staff May 16, 2025May 29, 2025
"Free Palestine" graffiti at Stanford University, June 5, 2024 (Andrew Esensten/J. Staff)
Posted inLetters

Diatribe at Yom HaShoah program. This newspaper angers me. Etc.

by J. Readers May 16, 2025May 16, 2025
Redwood High School  is one of several high schools in the Tamalpais Union High School District. (ResearcherQ via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inEducation

Marin teacher told class there were ‘too many Jews’ in the district

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi May 15, 2025May 19, 2025
If Catholic in-laws weren't enough, there's a dead body, too, in "Bad Shabbos."
Posted inFilm

In-laws-to-be and a dead body make for a ‘Bad Shabbos’

by J. Staff May 15, 2025May 15, 2025
Posted inSPONSORED CONTENT

Jewish Food & Wine Retreat returns to Camp Newman in September

by Rachel Lehmann-Haupt May 15, 2025July 11, 2025
Supervisor Harvey Milk at the 1978 San Francisco Gay Day Parade, as it was then called. (Courtesy GLBT Historical Society Jewish LGBTQ Voices and Activism Source Set)
Posted inTheater

Harvey Milk opera that ‘reimagines’ the gay Jewish icon returns to S.F.

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb May 14, 2025May 15, 2025

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