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Volunteer translator Zhenya Leonov (right) helps volunteer attorney Nick Keats (center) talk to a woman who recently arrived from Ukraine at a legal services clinic at JFCS San Francisco in 2022.
Posted inBay Area

Former refugees in Bay Area pay it forward by helping new Ukrainian arrivals

by Sue Fishkoff September 30, 2022September 30, 2022
Antisemitic flyers were found near Congregation Beth Ami in Santa Rosa last week. (Photo/File)
Posted inBay Area

Latest round of antisemitic Goyim TV flyers hits Santa Rosa and Novato

by J. Staff September 29, 2022
Rabbi Jason Rodich stands outside the entrance to Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco as an unarmed guard screens people coming into the building, July 2019. Emanu-El is one of 15 local Jewish organizations to receive new federal funding to enhance security. (Photo/Sue Barnett)
Posted inBay Area

Amid rising antisemitism, 15 Bay Area Jewish orgs get $2 million in federal security grants

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 28, 2022October 3, 2022
A group discussion at GatherDC's annual Beyond the Tent Retreat. (Joshua Orozco/Courtesy GatherDC)
Posted inBay Area

D.C.-based org ready to ‘Gather’ young Jews in Bay Area

by Jordan Greene September 27, 2022September 29, 2022
Or Shalom's new building in Bernal Heights.  (Photo/Open Homes Photography)
Posted inCommunity

After 30 years, San Francisco’s Or Shalom finally has a home of its own

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene September 23, 2022September 27, 2022
Sam Salkin (left) and Anita Friedman will be honored by AJC next month.
Posted inPhilanthropy

Sam Salkin, Anita Friedman to be honored at AJC Global Advocacy Gala

by Dan Pine September 22, 2022
Randolph Hall at the College of Charleston, a school which Los Gatos teen Danny Tal decided not to consider attending because of local abortion laws. (Photo/Wikimedia-Lkeadle CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inEducation

Abortion laws are becoming a factor in Jewish students’ college choices

by Jordan Greene and Forward September 22, 2022
San Francisco Unified School District students walking to class on the first day of school, Aug. 17, 2022. (Photo/Instagram @londonbreed)
Posted inEducation

S.F. school board backtracks on Muslim holidays until new ‘calendering process’ is developed

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman September 21, 2022September 25, 2022
Schlepping Home player Tom Howe in action. (Photo/Instagram @schleppinghome)
Posted inSports

Schlepping Home: Jewish gay kickball team in S.F. wins games, and friends 

Gabe Fisher by Gabe Fisher September 21, 2022September 21, 2022
Students at Sacramento Jewish Academy in Granite Bay.
Posted inNorthern California

Sacramento-area school fills void for region’s growing Chabad community

Rachel Raskin-Zrihen by Sue Fishkoff and Rachel Raskin-Zrihen September 20, 2022September 23, 2022

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