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Rabbi Zelig Golden, founding director of Wilderness Torah, clutches the organization‘s new Torah scroll, posing with the Wilderness Torah staff. (Photo/Julia Maryanska)
Posted inNews

Finally, a Torah for Wilderness Torah, thanks to dying synagogue

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 5, 2018September 5, 2018
Atlas Edibles, a brand of marijuana edibles, is operated by Jewish Community High School of the bay alum Ezra Malmuth. (Photo/Atlas Edibles)
Posted inNews

Entrepreneurs — marijuana and otherwise — speak at Jewish high school

Alix Wall by Alix Wall September 4, 2018September 4, 2018
Jennifer Spitzer
Posted inNews

New Israel Fund scrutinizes travel ban on Israel’s critics

by Rob Gloster September 4, 2018September 5, 2018
Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, member of the Ugandan parliament and first ordained rabbi of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda, in Marin, August 2018 (Photo/Sue Fishkoff)
Posted inBay Area, World, News

In Marin, Uganda’s chief rabbi lays out big plans — including a run for president

by Sue Fishkoff August 31, 2018September 4, 2018
Posted inEducation

S.F. Jewish high school adds ‘salaam’ to its vocabulary

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol August 30, 2018June 14, 2019
Justin Hefter (left) and Mohammed Al Samawi in Corona Heights Park in San Francisco, 2015.
(Photo/Courtesy of Justin Hefter)
Posted inNews

How an S.F. techie helped rescue a Yemeni activist via social media

by Rob Gloster August 28, 2018September 4, 2018
Cantor Linda Hirschhorn performing at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, Jan. 2016 (Photo/Sandra Morris)
Posted inUncategorized

Cantor now hitting right notes as synagogue’s ‘rebbe’

by Rob Gloster August 27, 2018August 27, 2018
Pleasanton-based Chabad of the Tri-Valley's Rabbi Raleigh Resnick
Posted inNews

Tri-Valley Chabad’s neighbors ready to end zoning dispute?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 23, 2018
James A. White has served 37 years of a life sentence — but parole may now be within his reach.
Posted inNews

Man in prison for life might get out — thanks, in part, to J.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 22, 2018August 22, 2018
In the renovated sanctuary, David Ovadia speaks with pride about the realization of his vision for a renovated and expanded Karaite synagogue in Daly City. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inBay Area

The expanding future of America’s only Karaite synagogue

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 22, 2018July 24, 2019

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