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Rabbi Mayer Hirsch with barrels of sacramental kosher wine during Prohibition in San Francisco, ca. 1930. (The Magnes Collection)
Posted inHistory

100 years ago, Prohibition put booze and Jews in the news

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 24, 2019
Leslie Berlin’s lawn decorations show children from diverse backgrounds celebrating peace and joy. (Rick Dodd)
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: A Jewish Silicon Valley historian who lights up at Christmas

by Alix Wall December 19, 2019December 19, 2019
Joe Pesci (left) and Robert De Niro star in Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman." (Netflix)
Posted inFilm

Are the Jewish mobsters referenced in ‘The Irishman’ real?

by Emily Burack and JTA December 3, 2019December 3, 2019
Oct. 6 drop-in genealogy session at the Jewish Community Library in San Francisco with members of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society. (Courtesy SFBAJGS)
Posted inBay Area

Genealogy ‘mavens’ go old-school to uncover Jewish past

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman December 3, 2019December 5, 2019
The synagogue in Breckenridge, Tex., in 1929. (Basil Clemons/University of Texas at Arlington Archives)
Posted inU.S.

A Texas synagogue burned to the ground, but there were no Jews left to mourn it

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA November 27, 2019November 27, 2019
Ariel Luckey speaks at a Nov. 18 "Jews on Ohlone Land" event at Urban Adamah in Berkeley. (Maya Mirsky)
Posted inUncategorized

East Bay Jews discuss what it means to live as Jews on Ohlone land

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 22, 2019November 25, 2019
Supporters of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party at a campaign rally in Szekesfehervar, April 6, 2018. (JTA/Laszlo Balogh/Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Xenophobia in Hungary: Is the past becoming the present?

Tom Weidlinger by Tom Weidlinger November 20, 2019November 20, 2019
From the cover of "Cosella Wayne: Or, Will and Destiny" by Cora Wilburn"
Posted inCulture

Newly uncovered first American Jewish novel reveals an early feminist voice

by Penny Schwartz and JTA November 19, 2019
Shira Kammen (Courtesy  Kammen)
Posted inMusic

Centuries-old Sephardic music plus bawdy songs about Virgin Mary in area concerts

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 18, 2019November 20, 2019
Archival photo of 19th-century journalist Miriam Michelson
Posted inBooks

Rediscovering S.F.’s pioneering 19th-century ‘girl reporter’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 5, 2019November 27, 2019

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