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The extended Trachtenberg family, plus friends, at the entry to Allen’s Garden during a work party day, a few years ago. Front and center, in white blouse, is Mitzi Trachtenberg, widow of Allen. She died Feb. 8, 2020. (Courtesy Julie Trachtenberg)
Posted inEducation

A learning garden grows in Richmond, in memory of ‘Grandpa Allen’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull February 28, 2020March 5, 2020
3d print of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/Flickr CC BA 2.0)
Posted inUncategorized

Bay Area Jewish orgs respond to coronavirus: Israel trips canceled, but wait and see on local steps

by Gabriel Greschler February 28, 2020March 6, 2020
Junior Mayema, a gay refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo who now lives in San Francisco is one of four Bay Area refugees profiled in the documentary "Unsettled." (Tom Shepard)
Posted inBay Area, Culture, Film, TV & Film

At East Bay Jewish film fest, ‘Unsettled’ shows humanity of four local gay refugees

by Michael Fox February 27, 2020February 28, 2020
image of the main entrance to JCCSF
Posted inNews

JCCSF one of more than 50 JCCs to receive vague bomb threat

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman and JTA February 25, 2020
Rabbi David Rosen speaks at a Feb. 24 interfaith gathering in San Francisco. (Dan Pine)
Posted inNews

First rabbi to meet Saudi monarch in Riyadh stops in S.F. full of optimism

by Dan Pine February 25, 2020February 26, 2020
A Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control notice of application for ownership change in the window of Saul's Deli in Berkeley. (Maya Mirsky)
Posted inFood

Saul’s Deli changing owners, but don’t worry: ‘Saul’s is staying Saul’s’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 25, 2020February 28, 2020
a big glass building with students walking through a lawn in front
Posted inBay Area

SFSU Jewish life coordinator, mandated by legal settlement, out after less than a year

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman February 25, 2020March 5, 2020
“I’d like Netanyahu to be thrown out. He’s a crook,” Benny Morris said last week. (Wikimedia-Aude CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inBay Area

In Bay Area, candid Israeli historian Benny Morris sounds off on genocide and politics

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman February 24, 2020February 29, 2020
Michael Steinmetz, the Jewish entrepreneur behind Flow Kana and the Flow Cannabis Institute. (Courtesy Flow Kana)
Posted inBay Area, Northern California, California, Health, Jewish Life, News

‘King of Weed’: Meet the Jewish mogul who’s smokin’ the competition

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman February 21, 2020February 21, 2020
Former UC Berkeley student senator Milton Zerman. (Courtesy Milton Zerman)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish UC Berkeley student senator resigns after resolution against Bears for Palestine display fails

by Gabriel Greschler February 20, 2020July 24, 2023

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