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Terri and Mark Stark were looking forward to opening their Jewish deli in the North Bay.
Posted inUncategorized

Jewish-owned food businesses hit hard by coronavirus restrictions

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 17, 2020March 30, 2020
Rio American High School Principal Brian Ginter addresses parents at a meeting prompted by frustration over how he handled an incident in which a swastika was marked into dirt on the school's athletic field. (ELISSA EINHORN)
Posted inNorthern California

Sacramento high school’s response to swastika incident prompts frustration, community meeting

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn March 12, 2020March 19, 2020
Tye Gregory is the new executive director of the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Relations Council. (Photo/Amelia Burns)
Posted inBay Area

New head of JCRC may be a millennial, but he’s an old hand at Jewish communal work

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman March 4, 2020March 5, 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
Susan Eshkar. (Sean Thomas)
Posted inUncategorized

Jewish woman in Santa Cruz County needs a kidney

by J. Staff January 28, 2020
Women of Wall executive director Yochi Rappeport outside an Israeli police station with “Rudy’s Torah” after it was returned January 13, 2020.
Posted inNorthern California

After outcry, Sacramento Torah confiscated at Western Wall is released

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn January 15, 2020January 21, 2020
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond (center) met with Jewish leaders on Jan. 7 to discuss the controversial draft ethnic studies curriculum for California high schools. (Photo/Twitter-Rick Hirschhaut)
Posted inNews

Jewish leaders get their say on controversial ethnic studies curriculum

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 10, 2020January 21, 2020
Nazi SS bolts in the parking lot of Central Fill, a state corrections department pharmacy in Sacramento, discovered Dec. 2017.
Posted inCalifornia

Response to Nazi symbols at state prison pharmacy worries employees

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 3, 2020January 3, 2020
Rabbi Moshe Tom Heyn of Coastside Jewish Community
Posted inNorthern California

Drawn to the beauty of the coast, JuBu rabbi lucks into a congregation too

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 31, 2019January 7, 2020
Rabbi Mayer Hirsch with barrels of sacramental kosher wine during Prohibition in San Francisco, ca. 1930. (The Magnes Collection)
Posted inHistory

100 years ago, Prohibition put booze and Jews in the news

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 24, 2019

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