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A 1933 photograph of the interior of Temple Emanu-El decorated for Sukkot. (Photo/J. Archives)
Posted inFrom the Archives

The ancient festival of Sukkot needed a Golden State touch

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 2, 2023October 2, 2023
A newspaper page with the headline "Jews of color relish Chanukah party's welcome mat" and a photo of a Black man, a white man and a Black boy singing together
Posted inFrom the Archives

How Jews of color have shown up (or not) in this newspaper over the decades

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten September 20, 2023September 20, 2023
This ad from 1933 is strictly about the liquor. (J. Archives)
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100 years ago, Jewish grocers had the market on local service

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 29, 2023August 29, 2023
A Young Men's Hebrew Association baseball team in St. Louis, ca. 1930. (Photo/File-Courtesy American Jewish Historical Society)
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‘A sport-loving people,’ Jews always felt at home in baseball

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 15, 2023August 15, 2023
Sholem Aleichem at his writing desk in 1904.
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Books we reviewed in the early 1900s had not one ‘beach read’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 4, 2023August 6, 2023
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival co-directors Deborah Kaufman and Janis Plotkin in 1991 on the balcony of the Castro Theatre. (Photo/File)
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Wilder, Abzug, Vishniac: How we covered S.F. Jewish Film Fest headliners over the years

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 14, 2023July 14, 2023
Members of the recently formed Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in June 1979 during the “San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.” (Joe Altman-California Historical Society)
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In the ’70s and ’80s, our letter-writers went to battle over gay rights

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 20, 2023June 21, 2023
From our March 26, 1926 issue, heralding the then-new Emanu-El building
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‘Dedicated to the cause of Judaism’: Years after devastating 1906 quake, Emanu-El rose again

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 7, 2023June 8, 2023
The Hebrew Cemetery in Marysville takes up a corner of the city cemetery, located right off Highway 70. The gate is originally from a Jewish cemetery in San Francisco. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
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How the Gold Rush sprinkled Northern California with Jews

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 16, 2023
In our May 17, 1985 issue, we profiled three Russian emigres making it big in Silicon Valley.
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Jews have been part of Silicon Valley from the start

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 3, 2023May 3, 2023

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