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Rabbi Zoe McCoon is a Detroit native who is moving to the Bay Area for her first rabbinical post at Temple Beth Torah in Fremont.
Posted inNews

‘Joyful, welcoming, wise’: Beth Torah gets new rabbi with roots in Flint, Michigan

by Gabriel Greschler June 23, 2021
Rabbi Dorothy Richman teaches a Talmud course in 2013 offered through HaMaqom (then called Lehrhaus Judaica), which has announced it will close at the end of its 2021 summer term. (Photo/File)
Posted inEducation

Decision to close HaMaqom ‘irreversible,’ leadership says

by Sue Fishkoff June 22, 2021June 23, 2021
Trader Joe's new pareve chocolate chips (left) and chunks (right). (Photo/Forward-Louis Keene)
Posted inFood

A kosher calamity ends: Trader Joe’s brings back pareve chocolate chips

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward June 22, 2021
Marcella White Campbell of Be'chol Lashon during Juneteenth Kabbalat Shabbat. (Screenshot)
Posted inJuneteenth

‘Juneteenth sameach’: Local Jews mark newest national holiday with prayer and reflection

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 21, 2021June 19, 2023
Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi will be the next head of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, the first Black Jew to hold the top position at a rabbinical school.
Posted inReligion

For the first time, a Black Jew will lead an American rabbinical school

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA June 21, 2021
URJ Camp Newman staff dance together on Shabbat before the return of campers, June 2021.
Posted inBay Area

‘Pure magic’: Jewish summer camps return after year of Covid

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman June 21, 2021June 22, 2021
Naftali Bennett, left, then Israeli defense minister, looks on at then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting of right-wing parties, March 4, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Ousted Netanyahu finally says he’ll leave prime minister’s residence — in 3 weeks

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA June 21, 2021
The student government at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills called on the administration to reject the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism; last October it was one of the few student governments in the world to adopt it. (Photo/File)
Posted inNews

Three South Bay colleges pass resolutions condemning Israel

by Gabriel Greschler June 18, 2021June 23, 2021
The current Supreme Court, clockwise from top left: Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Elana Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, Sonya Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Posted inNews

A Supreme Court decision allowing a Catholic foster agency to discriminate splits Jewish groups

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 18, 2021June 18, 2021
Screenshot from a video posted on Twitter that allegedly shows a former JVS employee (left) stealing a school board recall petition from a volunteer collecting signatures (right).
Posted inNews

JVS fires employee accused of stealing S.F. school board recall petitions

by Gabriel Greschler June 18, 2021

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