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Yeast, hair removal, wine, bathing suits and more were advertised in this 1905 issue of the Emanu-El, the original name of this paper.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Archives Week: Lace curtains, freckle salve and dancing pumps in early ads

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 16, 2022
Margaret Henschel, an employee at Intel’s facility in Chandler, Arizona, moves through the facility's cleanroom. (Photo/Library of Congress-Carol M. Highsmith)
Posted inBay Area, Israel, News, Tech

Intel to acquire Israeli chipmaker for $5.4 billion

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 16, 2022
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, Feb. 9, 2022. (Photo/JTA)
Posted inNews

Pelosi and other Bay Area congressional Democrats visit Israel

by JTA and J. Staff February 15, 2022February 15, 2022
Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld surveys the damage at the Chabad House in south San Jose, Dec. 2021. (Photo/Emma Goss)
Posted inNews

South Bay Chabad destroyed by fire receives support from Azerbaijan

by Ryan Torok February 15, 2022February 16, 2022
Bob Stein holds up the banner for recently formed Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in June 1979 during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. (Photo/Joe Altman-California Historical Society)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Archives Week: How we covered — or didn’t cover — LGBTQ Jews over the years

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 15, 2022February 16, 2022
This photo of the post-earthquake ruins of Temple Emanu-El's original building appeared on the cover of our Sept. 21, 1906 issue.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Archives Week: How we’ve covered the biggest Bay Area Jewish stories through the years

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten February 14, 2022February 16, 2022
After years languishing on these shelves in our office, the full 127-year archives of J., the Jewish Bulletin and the Emanu-El are now available online. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
Posted inFirst Person

Digitizing J.’s archives was a mission to save Jewish history 

by Sue Fishkoff February 14, 2022February 14, 2022
Rabbi Camille Angel at the University of San Francisco's Lone Mountain Campus. (Photo/Lea Loeb)
Posted inBay Area

Meet the rabbi ‘queering’ religion at Jesuit Catholic USF

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb February 11, 2022February 12, 2022
Zahra Billoo speaks at the Jan. 2018 Women's March in San Francisco. (Photo/Wikimedia-Pax Ahimsa Gethen CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Zahra Billoo removed as keynote speaker at San Mateo women’s conference

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 10, 2022February 10, 2022
Mockup of one of the JewBelong billboards that will be on display in San Francisco from Feb. 7 through March 13, 2022.
Posted inBay Area

JewBelong’s edgy #EndJewHate billboards return to Bay Area

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman February 9, 2022February 20, 2022

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