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The latest Jewish news from around the Bay and around the world.

a woman in front of a sign that says "California Israel Chamber of Commerce"
Posted inTech

Cannatech is focus for new California Israel Chamber of Commerce head

by Rob Gloster January 8, 2019January 9, 2019
Jewbilee keynote speaker Nigel Savage
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

‘Food for Thought’ and more at this year’s Jewbilee

by J. Staff January 7, 2019January 9, 2019
The San Francisco Federal Building (right) (Photo/Wikimedia-Eric in SF CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inNews

Hebrew Free Loan helps out furloughed federal workers

by J. Staff January 7, 2019January 7, 2019
youkilis winds up to take a swing
Posted inSports

Jewish slugger Youkilis, now a Bay Area brewery owner, on Hall of Fame ballot

by JTA and J. Staff January 2, 2019
Gabi Ilinetsky with Yoel and Yael in November (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inBay Area

East Bay parents trying to save twins from rare Ashkenazi disease

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 28, 2018January 7, 2019
Aerial view of the Agahozo-Shalom Village in Rwanda.
Posted inWorld, News

Son of local rabbi helps genocide orphans in Rwandan Jewish-sponsored ‘youth village’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 28, 2018January 7, 2019
Amos Oz, shown here in 2015, often blurred the personal and the political in his writing. (Photo/JTA-Gerry Images-Jason Kempin)
Posted inObituaries

Israeli writer, peace activist Amos Oz, dies at 79

by Andrew Silow-Carroll December 28, 2018December 28, 2018
montage of heashots of famous jews who died in 2018
Posted inNews

Some of the inspiring Jews we lost in 2018

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA December 26, 2018
Bernie Madoff shown entering a federal court in New York March 12, 2009. His historic Ponzi scheme had enormous impact on several Jewish organizations and Jewish friends he cultivated in business and social circles. (Photo/JTA-Stephen Chernin-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S., News, Philanthropy

10 years ago, the Bernie Madoff scandal rocked Jewish philanthropy. Here’s how his victims have fared.

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales December 21, 2018December 21, 2018
Stephanie Levin of the Peninsula JCC (left) and Robin Vasilakos of the Oshman Family JCC at Pittsburgh JCC
Posted inNews

Two local JCCs help colleagues at Pittsburgh JCC

by Rob Gloster December 20, 2018December 20, 2018

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