• Readers’ Choice 2025
  • FREE NEWSLETTERS
  • DONATE
  • News
    • Bay Area
    • U.S.
    • Israel
    • World
  • Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Ideas
    • Music
    • On Stage
    • TV & Film
  • Opinion
    • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Letters
  • Jewish Life
    • Lifecycles
    • Obituaries
    • Food
    • Religion
    • Education
    • Kids & Family
    • Seniors
    • Philanthropy
  • Calendar
  • Archives
  • Subscribe | Renew
  • Jewish Resource Guide
  • Facebook Page
  • Instagram

Landing Top

Skip to content
Donate

J.

The Jewish News of Northern California

Donate

J.

The Jewish News of Northern California

  • Readers’ Choice 2025
  • FREE NEWSLETTERS
  • DONATE
  • Facebook Page
  • Instagram
  • News
    • Bay Area
    • U.S.
    • Israel
    • World
  • Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Ideas
    • Music
    • On Stage
    • TV & Film
  • Opinion
    • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Letters
  • Jewish Life
    • Lifecycles
    • Obituaries
    • Food
    • Religion
    • Education
    • Kids & Family
    • Seniors
    • Philanthropy
  • Calendar
  • Archives
  • Subscribe | Renew
  • Jewish Resource Guide

History

Our front page on May 21, 1948
Posted inFrom the Archives

How we’ve covered violence and war in Israel for 75 years

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 25, 2023
The Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system intercepting rockets fired by Hamas (right) as seen in the sky above the Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021 (Photo/JTA-Anas Baba-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael

Polls show Hamas unpopular in Gaza before it attacked Israel

logo of The Conversation by Nathan French and The Conversation October 19, 2023October 19, 2023
Holocaust survivor Joe Alexander shares his testimony with teachers from across California at the JFCS-coordinated California Teachers Collaborative's Summer Institute. (Courtesy)
Posted inEducation

Big push to improve state’s Holocaust and genocide education 

by Sue Fishkoff October 17, 2023October 22, 2023
An Israeli Centurion tank parks in the Sinai desert during the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt and Syria, 1973. (Photo/JTA-Harry Dempster-Express-Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

50 years after the Yom Kippur War, veterans see echoes in Israel’s current crisis

by Ron Kampeas September 26, 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)
Posted inFrom the Archives

100 years ago, Jewish grocers had the market on local service

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 29, 2023August 29, 2023
Thanks to new technology, the remains of resistance fighter Bernard Luza (left) were recently identified in the Netherlands, as was the precise location of a massacre of Jews in Latvia, memorialized in a plaque in the general vicinity. (Photos/JTA-Dutch Ministry of Defense, Google Maps)
Posted inHistory

Holocaust gravesites identified in Latvia and Netherlands using contemporary technology

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg August 25, 2023August 25, 2023
Keith Naftaly (white shirt) with the seminal rap group Run-DMC. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inCulture

How a Jewish radio savant turned San Francisco’s KMEL into the top rap station

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 16, 2023August 18, 2023
A Young Men's Hebrew Association baseball team in St. Louis, ca. 1930. (Photo/File-Courtesy American Jewish Historical Society)
Posted inFrom the Archives

‘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
Clockwise from top left: The Beastie Boys, Doja Cat and Rick Rubin, shown with Russell Simmons, are a few of the prominent Jewish figures from the first 50 years of hip-hop. (Photos/JTA-Getty Images; Design/JTA-Mollie Suss)
Posted inMusic

From Rick Rubin to Doja Cat, Jews have helped shape the first 50 years of hip-hop

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 11, 2023August 16, 2023

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 … 9 10 11 12 13 … 41 Older posts

Get J.'s latest headlines sent to your inbox:

MOST POPULAR

Stuart Kelman, founding rabbi of Berkeley’s Netivot Shalom, dies at 84
AIPAC didn't fund Connie Chan. Here's what actually happened.
Super Mensch shutters after 8 months in S.F., Ma'lawah Bar closes in Palo Alto
Two Jewish Bay Area ex-mayors are running for California lieutenant governor
Major S.F. foundation run by Levi Strauss descendants to close in 2028
  • Facebook Page
  • Instagram

About

  • Mission
  • People
  • Policies
  • Financials
  • Careers

Ways to Give

  • Donate
  • Legacy giving
  • Donors

J. IN PRINT

  • Subscribe or renew
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Change of address
  • Archives

Connect

  • Free Newsletters
  • Jewish Resource Guide
  • Readers’ Choice Awards
  • Advertise

Submissions

  • Contact
  • News Tips
  • Calendar Events
  • Obituaries
  • Lifecyle Events
  • Letters to the Editor
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, see here: Privacy & Cookie Policy
  • © 2026 J.
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
Powered by Newspack