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Bay Area

Federation’s marquee Day of Philanthropy goes multi-day

Before Covid-19, the Day of Philanthropy was just that — a day. Now, with the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation’s annual event coming around during…
By Dan Pine Jan 11, 2021
Screenshot of a video former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger posted to social media on Jan. 10, 2021.

California

Arnold Schwarzenegger compares Capitol riot to Kristallnacht

In an impassioned video, Arnold Schwarzenegger said the deadly mob violence in the U.S. Capitol last week recalled Kristallnacht, the Nazi attack on Jews…
By Ron Kampeas, JTA Jan 11, 2021
The man who put up these stickers in downtown Fairfax will not be charged, says the Marin DA. (Screenshot/Instagram @noahthamack)

Bay Area

Marin DA will not charge man who posted swastika stickers

A 19-year-old from Livermore who posted swastika stickers with the words “We are everywhere” in downtown Fairfax in November will not face criminal…
By Gabriel Greschler Jan 8, 2021
“It’s comforting not to feel like a Martian. Living in California felt like living on a different planet,” says Wendy Feldman, seen here with her husband, Lance. The couple moved to Idaho in August. (Photo/Mary Slater Hicks)

Bay Area

Why some right-leaning Jews are leaving California for redder pastures

Lance and Wendy Feldman have been slowly cutting ties with their native California for the last two decades. The process began in the early 2000s when…
By Andrew Esensten Jan 8, 2021
Riot police push back a crowd of supporters of President Donald Trump after they stormed the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Roberto Schmidt AFP via Getty Images)

Religion

Shaken by violence at Capitol, Bay Area rabbis offer solace

Jews “know the danger of the mob.” That’s what Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco wrote in a message to congregants on Wednesday evening, following a…
By J. Staff Jan 7, 2021
Michael Krasny, host of the popular "Forum" show on KQED, will leave the airwaves in February. (Photo/From file)

Bay Area

About to retire, Michael Krasny reflects on an iconic career in radio

Something strange is coming to the airwaves in early 2021. KQED radio’s weekday news show “Forum” will begin as usual the morning of Feb. 16, but Michael…
By Dan Pine Jan 7, 2021
Protesters advocating the overturn of the 2020 presidential election results gather at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Tasos Katopodis-Getty Images)

Politics

Jewish elected officials react to pro-Trump mobs in D.C. and Sacramento

Wednesday has been a day unlike any in modern American history: An armed mob broke through police barriers then went into the U.S. Capitol building,…
By Gabriel Greschler, Gabe Stutman, JTA Jan 6, 2021
Storefront

Bay Area

From retail shop to Jewish center: East Bay Chabad spruces up new digs

It used to be a shop that sold healing crystals, but for the past year, the storefront at 1710 University Ave. in Berkeley has been the place that Rabbi…
By Maya Mirsky Jan 6, 2021
Sonoma County Sheriff personnel on Jan. 4 near Blind Beach, where Michael Wyman drowned trying to save his two children. (Photo/Twitter-San Mateo County Sheriff's Office)

Bay Area

Jewish father drowns on Sonoma coast trying to save two children

UPDATED: Jan. 6, 12 p.m. A Jewish father is dead and his two young children presumed drowned after a sneaker wave, a surge that appears with tremendous…
By Dan Pine Jan 5, 2021
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