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Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger's April 1, 1898 column
Posted inFrom the Archives

In 1898, this newspaper declared the haggadah ‘literary nonsense’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 14, 2022
Tsvi Reiter, Yvonne Reiter and Hei Le participate in Yvonne’s bat mitzvah ceremony, which was performed over Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo/The Conversation-Lindsey Wasson-Getty Images News via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

The first bat mitzvah was 100 years ago, and has been opening doors for Jewish women ever since

Lisa Fishbayn Joffelogo of The Conversation by Lisa Fishbayn Joffe and The Conversation March 15, 2022March 15, 2022
From the society page in our Sept. 1, 1922 edition
Posted inFrom the Archives

Once upon a time, our ‘Society’ pages chronicled the lives of Jewish women

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 9, 2022
Bob Stein holds up the banner for recently formed Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in June 1979 during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. (Photo/Joe Altman-California Historical Society)
Posted inFirst Person

An inside look at the history of Sha’ar Zahav, San Francisco’s LGBTQ synagogue

Ron Lezell by Ron Lezell March 8, 2022March 8, 2022
The front page of our May 9, 1986 paper detailed the attempts of Bay Area Ukrainian Jews to contact family after the Chernobyl disaster.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Timeline of Ukrainian Jews in our pages over the years

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 7, 2022April 14, 2022
Mayor David Dinkins (center) looks on while a Jewish man and a Black man argue during riots in Crown Heights, Aug. 1991. (Photo/JTA-New York Daily News Archive-Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

A podcaster explores her own Black and Jewish identities in a series about the Crown Heights riots

by Adam Dickter and JTA February 22, 2022February 22, 2022
A group gathers around the Torah at Congregation Beth Sholom, led by Rabbi Alan Lew (third from right, facing Torah) in 1994. (Photo/Phil Head)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Forward-looking Beth Sholom looks back at 100 years of progress

by Dan Pine February 18, 2022
Sue Barnett in Rosh Hanikra, northern Israel, on her confirmation trip in 1975.
Posted inFirst Person

A search for myself in our newly digitized archives kicks up the Jewish dust

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett February 17, 2022April 19, 2026
John Rothmann was president of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews when he led this protest outside the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco in 1986.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Archives Week: In immigration coverage, ‘let my people go’ was once ‘don’t let them in’ 

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 17, 2022
A protest on behalf of Soviet Jewry in front of the Soviet consulate in San Francisco captured in the Jewish Bulletin.
Posted inOpinion

J.’s digitized archives are a window into the unique ethos of Bay Area Jews

headshot of Fred Rosenbaum by Fred Rosenbaum February 16, 2022February 16, 2022

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