• Readers’ Choice 2025
  • FREE NEWSLETTERS
  • DONATE
  • News
    • Bay Area
    • U.S.
    • Israel
    • World
  • Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Ideas
    • Music
    • On Stage
    • TV & Film
  • Opinion
    • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Letters
  • Jewish Life
    • Lifecycles
    • Obituaries
    • Food
    • Religion
    • Education
    • Kids & Family
    • Seniors
    • Philanthropy
  • Calendar
  • Archives
  • Subscribe | Renew
  • Jewish Resource Guide
  • Facebook Page
  • Instagram

Landing Top

Skip to content
Donate

J.

The Jewish News of Northern California

Donate

J.

The Jewish News of Northern California

  • Readers’ Choice 2025
  • FREE NEWSLETTERS
  • DONATE
  • Facebook Page
  • Instagram
  • News
    • Bay Area
    • U.S.
    • Israel
    • World
  • Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Ideas
    • Music
    • On Stage
    • TV & Film
  • Opinion
    • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Letters
  • Jewish Life
    • Lifecycles
    • Obituaries
    • Food
    • Religion
    • Education
    • Kids & Family
    • Seniors
    • Philanthropy
  • Calendar
  • Archives
  • Subscribe | Renew
  • Jewish Resource Guide

History

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
Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon during the NASA Apollo 11 mission. Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon, after Neil Armstrong. (Photo/JTA-Hulton Archive-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

The kid in me wants another national moon shot, if not another shot at the moon

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 18, 2019
Officers taking a group of Central American asylum seekers into custody near McAllen, Texas, June 12, 2018. (Photo/JTA-John Moore-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

What will we tell the descendants of children detained by our government?

Donald C. Cutler by Donald C. Cutler July 2, 2019July 2, 2019

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 … 28 29 30 31 32 … 41 Older posts

Get J.'s latest headlines sent to your inbox:

MOST POPULAR

Stuart Kelman, founding rabbi of Berkeley’s Netivot Shalom, dies at 84
AIPAC didn't fund Connie Chan. Here's what actually happened.
Super Mensch shutters after 8 months in S.F., Ma'lawah Bar closes in Palo Alto
Two Jewish Bay Area ex-mayors are running for California lieutenant governor
Major S.F. foundation run by Levi Strauss descendants to close in 2028
  • Facebook Page
  • Instagram

About

  • Mission
  • People
  • Policies
  • Financials
  • Careers

Ways to Give

  • Donate
  • Legacy giving
  • Donors

J. IN PRINT

  • Subscribe or renew
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Change of address
  • Archives

Connect

  • Free Newsletters
  • Jewish Resource Guide
  • Readers’ Choice Awards
  • Advertise

Submissions

  • Contact
  • News Tips
  • Calendar Events
  • Obituaries
  • Lifecyle Events
  • Letters to the Editor
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, see here: Privacy & Cookie Policy
  • © 2026 J.
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
Powered by Newspack