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Left: Devorie and Rabbi Menachem Levin inside the former movie theater now being used by Chabad West Portal. Right: The Portal Theater when it opened in 1925.
Posted inBay Area

Chabad brings new life to S.F. cinema with a Jewish backstory

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 22, 2023March 22, 2023
Israeli lawmaker Simcha Rothman, an architect of the judicial overhaul, chairs a session of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on March 20, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Gil Cohen-Magen-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

‘The gun is on the table’: Both sides of Israel’s debate say that a constitutional crisis is coming

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA March 22, 2023March 22, 2023
San Jose Fire Station 3, where Casilia Loessberg used to work. (Photo/San Jose Fire Department)
Posted inBay Area

Ex–firefighter’s lawsuit says her superior was a ‘known Nazi sympathizer’

Jew,  Jewish,  J. The Jewish News of Northern California
Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 21, 2023March 22, 2023
Some Israelis are trying to leave the country over the political upheaval there, according to accounts from Israelis and organizations that help them emigrate. (Collage/JTA-Grace Yagel)
Posted inNews

Alarmed by their country’s political direction, more Israelis are seeking to move abroad

by Deborah Danan and JTA March 21, 2023
Garrett Stubbs, Ryan Lavarnway and Noah Mendlinger played for Team Israel in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
Posted inSports

On Israeli baseball team, locker room talk turned to politics

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward March 20, 2023
Jewish scholars and rabbis in the Teshuva Writing Collective, a project of Svara, are creating the first collection of responsa by and for transgender Jews. (Photo/JTA-Jess Benjamin)
Posted inReligion

Queer yeshiva to publish first-ever collection of Jewish legal opinions written by and for trans Jews

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA March 20, 2023
an older woman happily holds out her arms to greet an old friend in a large synagogue sanctuary
Posted inNews

After three years of Covid, synagogues have ‘new normal’ 

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 20, 2023March 20, 2023
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber found this antisemitic flyer, typical of the flyers distributed by the Goyim Defense League hate group, while out on a walk with his wife in January 2022. (Photo/JTA-Dan Gelber via Twitter)
Posted inNews

A Florida bill would ban ‘ethnic intimidation’ flyers used by neo-Nazis

by Andrew Lapin and JTA March 17, 2023March 17, 2023
Participants of JCRC Bay Area's AAPI-Jewish solidarity trip dining at the NewBigWong restaurant in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown. (Photo/Courtesy Tyler Gregory)
Posted inNews

Bay Area Jewish and AAPI leaders talk shared concerns at White House

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene March 17, 2023March 17, 2023
Dean Kremer pitches against Nicaragua in Israel's first game of the 2023 World Baseball Classic, March 12, 2023, in Miami. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Team Israel)
Posted inSports

Three Bay Area Jews, including Giants’ Joc, step up to the plate for Team Israel at World Baseball Classic 

Michael Gutnick by Michael Gutnick March 17, 2023

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