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Ruth Temkim (left) and Sandy Pospisil pack meals for the HaMotzi food assistance program at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, Aug. 7, 2022. (Photo/Samantha Laurey)
Posted inJewish Life

At many Bay Area synagogues, the real action is social action

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene August 18, 2022August 19, 2022
An Edah program in 2019 (Photo/File)
Posted inEducation

Merger streamlines two East Bay after-school programs

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene August 17, 2022
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai on the USS General M.C. Meigs, 1949 (Photo/Courtesy U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library)
Posted inFrom the Archives

75 years ago this week: San Francisco was ‘Port of Hope’ for Jewish refugees from Shanghai

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 17, 2022August 17, 2022
Shira Potash (right) and her mother Helen Seligmann Hordes in front of their family's former home in Ronnenberg, Germany. (Photo/Stephanie Cimino)
Posted inNews

Her family’s old house has become a poignant memorial to a German town’s Jewish past

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 16, 2022August 17, 2022
A man hiking the Israel National Trail, which traverses the full length of the country. (Photo/iancorless.com via Israel21c)
Posted inNews

Sierra Club opens registration for Israel trips, after canceling under pressure

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 15, 2022August 16, 2022
Limmud Bay Area 2015 at Sonoma State University
Posted inReligion

Limmud Bay Area adds Zoom option and track for Jewish singles

by Sue Fishkoff August 15, 2022August 15, 2022
A group of Jewish Home residents seen in our Feb. 20, 1959 issue
Posted inFrom the Archives

From Jewish Home to Campus for Jewish Living, over a century of caring for Jewish seniors

by Angela Smalley August 15, 2022August 12, 2022
The Arab Liberation Mural in the Mission District's Clarion Alley was created by activists with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Arab Youth Organizing and local and international artists. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inArt

How a dispute over a ‘Zionism Is Racism’ mural derailed an S.F. public library exhibit

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 12, 2022August 16, 2022
Especially during Diwali, Hindus may decorate their homes or outside areas with swastikas to symbolize auspiciousness; some, like this one, are made on the ground out of rice flour.
(Photo/Courtesy Hindu American Foundation)
Posted inCalifornia

ADL event about California hate bill affirms Hindu-Jewish solidarity on swastikas

by Dan Pine August 12, 2022August 12, 2022
Antisemitic flyer
Posted inNews

In a first, a Wisconsin man has been fined for littering town with Goyim TV flyers

by J. Staff August 12, 2022September 6, 2022

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