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a lit memorial candle with a Sinai Memorial Chapel logo on it
Posted inObituaries

Death announcements for the week of March 20, 2026

by J. Staff March 20, 2026March 19, 2026
Person reading a Torah scroll
Posted inLifecycles

Lifecycles announcements for the week of March 20, 2026

by J. Staff March 20, 2026March 19, 2026
Photo taken by Dena Fox, 10, at the JCCSF Purim party. (Dena Fox)
Posted inKids & Family

J. sent ‘kid reporters’ to Purim parties with disposable cameras

Yael Bright by Yael Bright March 19, 2026March 25, 2026
Passover crafts for kids
Posted inPassover

Passover crafts, puppet shows, music, seders for kids in the Bay Area

Rahel Knight (Courtesy) by Rahel Knight March 19, 2026March 19, 2026
“Bread and Salt” by Imre Amos, 1942
Posted inTorah

Salt has been an essential ingredient in our ritual life since Temple times

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon March 19, 2026March 19, 2026
"Our Class" play
Posted inAround the Bay

Upcoming events: ‘All-Girl Swing Bands.’ Wartime play. ‘Unlearning Jewish Anxiety.’

Rahel Knight (Courtesy) by Rahel Knight March 17, 2026March 17, 2026
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inTorah

Building the Tabernacle required serving God with great skill — and joy

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen March 12, 2026March 12, 2026
Seder table
Posted inCalendar

Upcoming events: Community seders. Immigrant aid. Parenting advice.

Rahel Knight (Courtesy) by Rahel Knight March 10, 2026March 10, 2026
Background: View of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill in 1850, by Wm. B. McMurtrie, draughtsman of the U.S. Surveying Expedition. (Library of San Francisco); Inset: A memorial to William Leidesdorff near the street in San Francisco that bears his name. (Wikimedia)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Was America’s first Black millionaire also San Francisco’s first Jew?

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 9, 2026March 30, 2026
Arayes are meat-filled pitas that kids learn to make at culinary camp in Oakland. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inRecipe

On the menu at Jewish summer camps: learning to cook

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer March 6, 2026March 6, 2026

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