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A leather shop that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inSukkot

For Mallorca’s Jews, their first ‘public’ sukkah is a triumph over the Spanish Inquisition

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 20, 2021
Sigismund Danielewicz, seen here ca. 1884, was a Jewish union organizer representing seamen and barbers. (Photo/Courtesy UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library)
Posted inHolidays

This S.F. Jew stood up to anti-Asian hate in 1885 — and got booed

by Gabriel Greschler September 5, 2021January 27, 2022
A panel from Bernard Zakheim's expansive WPA murals on medical history in UCSF's Toland Hall auditorium; Zakheim working on the mural in 1937. (Photos/UCSF Archives and Special Collections)
Posted inCulture

Court blocks removal of WPA-era murals at UCSF — for now

by J. Staff August 26, 2021August 26, 2021
Bruce Chilton is the author of “The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession.”
Posted inBooks

Q&A: New book plumbs role of the Herods in forming early Jewish, Christian views

Yonat Shimron by Yonat Shimron and RNS August 18, 2021
From the cover of “Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age” by Valerie Estelle Frankel
Posted inBooks

Q&A: New book explains how Jews invented science fiction

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 13, 2021June 10, 2024
One of the only Jewish kids in Key West, Gili Sanouf, 17, sorts through T-shirts and beachwear at the souvenir shop owned by his parents. (Photo/Larry Luxner)
Posted inHistory

The Jews of Key West: Making a home again in Margaritaville

by JTA and Larry Luxner August 3, 2021
The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, photographed on Oct. 17, 1934, is superimposed with an image of a page from a manuscript of a Tiberias rabbi who traveled to Europe on a fundraising mission in 1807. (Photo/JTA-MCNY-Gottscho-Schleisner-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

A Jewish library’s treasure surfaced at auction. How did it get there?

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA July 28, 2021
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival co-directors Deborah Kaufman and Janis Plotkin in 1991 on the balcony of the Castro Theatre. (Photo/File)
Posted inCulture

Why S.F. is home to the world’s oldest, longest-running Jewish film fest

Peter L. Stein by Peter L. Stein July 22, 2021July 4, 2022
Elvis Presley on "The Milton Berle Show," June 4, 1956. (Photo/JTA-Michael Ochs Archives-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

At Graceland, newly displayed grave marker honors Elvis’ complicated Jewish heritage

by Dan Fellner and JTA June 28, 2021
As a young girl, Lori Shearn was saved from the Nazis through a brief ad in the London Jewish Chronicle.
Posted inBay Area, World, History, News, Seniors

How 20 words in a Jewish newspaper saved this Marin woman from the Holocaust

by Mathilde Frot June 9, 2021

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