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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…