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Background: View of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill in 1850, by Wm. B. McMurtrie, draughtsman of the U.S. Surveying Expedition. (Library of San Francisco); Inset: A memorial to William Leidesdorff near the street in San Francisco that bears his name. (Wikimedia)
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Was America’s first Black millionaire also San Francisco’s first Jew?

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 9, 2026March 30, 2026
Baggage belonging to evacuees from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, being sorted, 1942. (National Archives)
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Jews reacted to Japanese American internment with unease, ambivalence

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 18, 2026February 18, 2026
A 1917 issue of the Israelite, published by India's Bene Israel community
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From Jamaica to India to Zimbabwe, Jewish newspapers have held us together

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 13, 2026February 13, 2026
An ebullient Isa Kremer performs, date unknown. (Bain News Service)
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This chanteuse brought Yiddish music to life a century ago

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 30, 2026January 30, 2026
An undated photo of Jewish soccer phenom Erno Schwarz. (Forward Archive)
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In the 1920s, Europe’s Jewish soccer players wowed American fans

by Chana Pollack January 14, 2026January 14, 2026
Miss Ray Frank in Stockton's Daily Record newspaper in 1897. (CDNC)
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Was Ray Frank of Oakland the first woman rabbi?

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 26, 2025December 26, 2025
Director Rob Reiner in a discussion following a screening of the film "LBJ" at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 (Jay Godwin)
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Rob Reiner told J. he saw political activism through a Jewish lens

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 16, 2025December 17, 2025
In the 1940s, we often wrote of "the Palestine Problem."
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A second look back at 130 years of our publication

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 2, 2025December 2, 2025
This photo of the post-earthquake ruins of Temple Emanu-El's original building appeared on the cover of our Sept. 21, 1906 issue.
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A trip through 13 decades of this paper’s archives, and a happy 130th to us

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 21, 2025November 21, 2025
Avoid Halloween disappointment in 1926. (J. Archives)
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Halloween, once a treat for Jews, became a tricky topic in the ’80s and ’90s

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 30, 2025November 2, 2025

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