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Mazel to Vivi Orum and everyone else celebrating their b'nai mitzvah in the coming weeks!
Posted inJewish Life

Lifecycle announcements for the week of Sept. 16, 2022

by J. Staff September 16, 2022September 29, 2022
Camp Tawonga's 2018 annual Rosh Hashanah service in the park
Posted inCommunity

UPDATED: Free and low-cost High Holiday services around the Bay

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb September 15, 2022October 3, 2022
The late British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks gives the queen a menorah at a reception at St. James’ Palace in London to mark the 350th anniversary of the re-establishment of the Jewish community in Britain, Nov. 28, 2006. (Photo/JTA-Tim Graham Picture Library-Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Queen Elizabeth, whose reign encompassed the 20th-century ascent of British Jewry, dead at 96

by Ron Kampeas and JTA September 8, 2022September 8, 2022
Welcome to Planet Earth, Leo Samuel Sims!
Posted inLifecycles

Lifecycle announcements for the week of Sept. 2, 2022

by J. Staff September 2, 2022September 2, 2022
a lit memorial candle with a Sinai Memorial Chapel logo on it
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Death announcements for the week of Sept. 2, 2022

by J. Staff September 2, 2022September 2, 2022
Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev at the European Parliament in Brussels, May 26, 2008. (Photo/European Parliament-Pietro Naj-Oleari CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Posted inObituaries

Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader whose reforms included letting Jews leave for Israel, dies at 91

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 31, 2022August 31, 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev at Edinburgh Airport at the end of a week-long trip to the U.K., Dec. 21, 1984. (Photo/JTA-Bryn Colton-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev’s mixed legacy on the Jews

by Benjamin Ivry and Forward August 31, 2022
Elias Botto (left) and Len Traubman do a reading during the wedding of J. contributing editor Alix Wall in 2006. (Photo/Joyce Goldschmid)
Posted inLocal Voice

Remembering Elias Botto, the Bay Area Palestinian who became my friend

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 26, 2022August 29, 2022
Maurice Kanbar on his signature red scooter in 2015. (Photo/File)
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‘Looking to do good’: Maurice Kanbar, S.F. philanthropist and eclectic inventor, dies at 93

by Dan Pine August 24, 2022August 24, 2022
(From left) Doron Shefer, Noemie Kohn and Tal Barron are doing part of their Israeli national service at Gan Mah Tov preschool at Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland.
Posted inOur Crowd

Honors, comings & goings, happenings, opportunities, philanthropy — Aug. 2022

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb August 19, 2022August 19, 2022

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