Culture
CJM taps longtime SFMOMA staffer to be new executive director
At the conclusion of its monthslong, nationwide search for a new executive director, the Contemporary Jewish Museum has selected a local museum leader —…
California
New state budgets gives boost to local Jewish community
The California Jewish Legislative Caucus was able to push several of its priorities through the final state budget, including funding for a Holocaust and…
Bay Area
Group floods S.F. with digital billboards to #EndJewHate
An East Coast nonprofit whose stated mission is to “rebrand Judaism” with a hip, made-for-social-media bent is behind dozens of advertisements seeking to…
Bay Area
Peninsula man arrested with cache of weapons and antisemitic manifesto
A Los Gatos man found with a cache of weapons along with a manifesto containing antisemitic language was arrested earlier this month, according to the…
Bay Area
Tawonga counselor drowns near camp
Berkeley native Eli Kane was on his day off from Camp Tawonga on Thursday when he and some other counselors headed to a river in the Stanislaus National…
Analysis
‘Liberated’ educators implement their own ethnic studies programs
After nearly two years of controversy and debate, California finally approved its model curriculum for ethnic studies in March. Following more than 80,000…
Bay Area
Another S.F. labor group considering BDS resolution against Israel
UPDATED: July 15, 10 a.m. The San Francisco Labor Council, a local AFL-CIO body representing more than 100,000 workers, is considering a resolution that…
Bay Area
New East Bay Hadassah chapter focuses on women in 30s and 40s
When she was a child, Jenette Woskow was undoubtedly the youngest member of a local Hadassah chapter in New York’s Westchester County. Her mother formed…
Bay Area
Jewish groups come to defense of local Muslim nominated by Biden
The American Jewish Committee and two figures in the Bay Area Jewish community have come out in defense of a nominee for a federal position who has been…