As the Bay Area remembers and memorializes the 30-year anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake of Oct. 17, 1989, we took a dip back into the J. archives to see how we covered it at the time. Oct. 20, 1989 Edition delayed by earthquake This issue of the Jewish Bulletin was produced two days late…
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What we wrote about S.F.’s Israel celebration in 1948
May 21, 1948 Birth of the State of Israel was celebrated in San Francisco in the Veterans Building with a rousing mass meeting sponsored by all the…
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AIPAC, 18 years ago: Bush vs. Gore
From an article first published May 26, 2000 Whoever the next president of the United States might be, the pro-Israel community seems to like what he has…
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The Chabad rebbe's earthquake advice
From an article published January 28, 1994 Like many Northern Californians, Chabad Rabbi Yosef Langer has long been accustomed to living with the threat…
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An early attempt to connect Jews 'through Internet'
This article appeared in our Jan. 14, 1994 edition: “Reach out and touch world Jewry” could be the motto of a new computer network created by a group of…
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In Hanukkah 1943, celebrating WWII as the ‘New Maccabean War’
Dec. 17, 1943 When the lamps of Chanukah are lit this year they will burn not alone for the deeds of the Maccabees of old, but for the present-day…
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1977: Israeli and Egyptian basketball teams approach peace
Dec. 9, 1977 Although the ink isn’t dry yet, and won’t be for weeks to come, on Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s recent visit to Israel, the Israeli sport…
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This week in 1927: Controversy over Jewish actors in Jesus biopic
Dec. 2, 1927 Rudolf Schildkraut, well-known Jewish actor who played the role of Caiaphas in the Cecil B. DeMille production “King of Kings,” a…
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When a Soviet Jewish émigré was ‘California Miss Teen’
Nov. 20, 1987: Except for the silver samovar in the kitchen, the Korot family’s neat bungalow in San Francisco’s Sunset District could be any middle-class…