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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

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(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’

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(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

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(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

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(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

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(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

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(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

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 3, 2023May 3, 2023
People gather in the streets of Tel Aviv after radio broadcasts announce the UN partition plan, Nov. 30, 1947 (File photo)
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‘State of Israel Is Born! The Challenge We Face’

by J. Staff April 26, 2023April 25, 2023
A charoset competition covered in our pages in 1978, with contestants (left to right) Augusta Levin, Kate Shannen, Sonia Mintz, Frieda Gross, Rachel Fishman, Celia Gold, Ruby Tobias and Bessie Goldberg. There's no word on who won! (Photo/J. Archives)
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Decades ago, our Passover recipes boldly name-dropped brands

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 4, 2023April 4, 2023

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