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Shopkeeper Harry Diller stands inside Diller’s Kosher Restaurant in San Francisco's Fillmore District around 1940. (The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish Fillmore back in the spotlight as S.F. seeks to undo ’60s ‘urban renewal’

by Dan Pine April 6, 2026April 10, 2026
One of the documents translated by AI is a book, handwritten likely by a Baghdadi youth in 5603 (1902 or 1903). The book features prayers, poems and a haggadah that translates the Hebrew to Judeo-Arabic. These pages show a portion of The Four Questions. (Courtesy Voices from the Archive)
Posted inIdeas

Oakland man’s AI platform unlocks a treasure trove of Iraqi Jewish history

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 27, 2026March 27, 2026
Chulpan Khamatova in “Our Class.” (Irina Danilova)
Posted inTheater

When betrayal leads to murder: ‘Our Class,’ set in 1941, coming to S.F. stage

by Sue Fishkoff March 6, 2026March 10, 2026
Still from “Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History.”
Posted inTV

America’s Black-Jewish story gets an update on new PBS series

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg February 4, 2026February 4, 2026
An ebullient Isa Kremer performs, date unknown. (Bain News Service)
Posted inFrom the Archives

This chanteuse brought Yiddish music to life a century ago

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 30, 2026January 30, 2026
A family in the Seduva shtetl, captured before the world they knew disappeared. The Lost Shtetl Museum offers an intimate look at religious, civic and cultural life in communities like these. (The Lost Shtetl Museum/collection of Anat Rosen)
Posted inCulture

Echoes of a lost shtetl: How sound is recreating a vanished Jewish world

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz January 26, 2026January 26, 2026
A depiction of the Jewish community slaughterhouse in a courtyard in Fürth, Germany. (Paul Christian Kirchner, Jüdisches Ceremoniel [Jewish Ceremonies], ed. Sebastian Jacob Jungendres (Nuremberg, 1724))
Posted inIdeas

Berkeley prof sticks a fork in German Jewish culture with a history of meat

by Sue Fishkoff January 20, 2026January 20, 2026
Congregation Sherith Israel's sanctuary glows in warm light. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Sherith Israel, a fixture of San Francisco history, is marking 175 years

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 8, 2026January 9, 2026
Miss Ray Frank in Stockton's Daily Record newspaper in 1897. (CDNC)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Was Ray Frank of Oakland the first woman rabbi?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 26, 2025December 26, 2025
Yoav Potash films Aaron Tartakovsky outside Gniewoszów City Hall in June 2017 for the film "Among Neighbors." (Sue Barnett/J. Staff)
Posted inFilm

Polish leaders attack Berkeley filmmaker’s Holocaust doc, open inquiry

by Sue Fishkoff November 26, 2025December 9, 2025

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