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Members of Karen Galatz’s family on her father’s side.
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

Am I a Galatz from Galaţi? It would be nice to know.

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz November 4, 2019
Damage in the Marina District in 1989 following the Loma Prieta earthquake (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBay Area, History, Jewish Life, News

From our archive: The Loma Prieta earthquake, 30 years later

by J. Staff October 17, 2019October 17, 2019
As an intern at Sinai Memorial Chapel in San Francisco, Jacob Isaacs created a digital map of historical Jewish sites around the city. (Photo/Courtesy Jacob Isaacs)
Posted inHistory

New digital map offers walking tours of San Francisco’s hidden Jewish history

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 16, 2019October 16, 2019
four women and one man toil in a field of dirt
Posted inHigh Holidays, Bay Area, U.S., History, Holidays, Yom Kippur, Jewish Life, News

Atonement: The Jewish case for black reparations

by Gabriel Greschler October 4, 2019October 4, 2019
five men in army uniforms stand on a set of train tracks facing the camera
Posted inHistory

Yom Kippur ’73: Local doctor shares stories and photos from the front lines

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 3, 2019September 28, 2022
a line of smiling children next to a truck full of books
Posted inHistory

S.F.-based Pritzker Fund endows major historical photo collection in Israel

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 24, 2019October 2, 2019
From the cover of “The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between” by Michael Dobbs
Posted inOff the Shelf

New books: Detailed looks at WWII Jewish refugee crisis, and FDR

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman September 20, 2019September 20, 2019
(From left) Izzy Ullmann, Lisa Karpanty, Peter Ullmann, Shanghailander Ilse Ullmann, Dan Ullmann, Evelyne Kende, Ray Kende at Congregation B'nai Emunah, Sept. 8, 2019 (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inBay Area

‘We Jews had nowhere to go’: Shanghailanders step into the spotlight to tell their stories

by Gabriel Greschler September 12, 2019September 23, 2019
JCC Krakow director Jonathan Ornstein shows off the center's preschool books. (Photo/Gunda Trepp)
Posted inLocal Voice

Up close and personal with Poland’s Jewish revival

Susan Moldaw by Susan Moldaw September 9, 2019September 9, 2019
Sacha Baron Cohen as Eli Cohen in "The Spy"
Posted inCulture

The real story behind ‘The Spy,’ Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Netflix series

Josefin Dolsten by JTA and Josefin Dolsten September 9, 2019September 16, 2019

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