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Amy Tobin is leaving her post as CEO of JCC of East Bay after four years.
Posted inNews

Amy Tobin stepping down as CEO of East Bay JCC after 4 years

by Dan Pine September 26, 2018September 26, 2018
Sam Genirberg speaks about how he survived the Holocaust in Germany, Sept. 13, 2018. (Photo/Dan Pine)
Posted inBay Area

Escape artist: Sharing his startling tale of Holocaust survival

by Dan Pine September 22, 2018October 1, 2018
A protest in front the S.F. office of ICE the day before Yom Kippur, organized by Binya Koatz (right) (Photo/Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb-Facebook)
Posted inNews

‘The fast I desire’: marking Yom Kippur with political protest

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky September 21, 2018September 21, 2018
Marc Benioff in 2016 (Photo/Kimberly White-Getty Images for GLAAD)
Posted inNews

Tech mogul Marc Benioff blows shofar, buys Time magazine

by JTA September 21, 2018September 21, 2018
Anat Hoffman (center) with Rabbi Beth Singer (left) of San Francsico's Congregation Emanu-El at a monthly Women of the Wall service in Jerusalem
Posted inNews

Israeli religious freedom warrior Anat Hoffman coming to Bay Area

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 21, 2018September 20, 2018
Rabbi Samantha Kahn from InterfaithFamily Bay Area officiates a wedding (Photo/Courtesy InterfaithFamily)
Posted inNews

Study: More rabbis are saying ‘I do’ to interfaith weddings

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol September 20, 2018September 20, 2018
A happy camper with a goat at Eden Village West summer camp. (Photo/Courtesy Eden Village West)
Posted inNews

Green thumbs up for Eden Village summer camp’s first year

Alix Wall by Alix Wall September 18, 2018September 18, 2018
Raleigh Zwerin, who found out in 2015 that she and her sister had the BRCA mutation, will speak on a panel about the gene that affects one in 40 Ashkenazi Jews. Seen here with her mother-in-law, Lonnie Zwerin.
Posted inHealth

At S.F. synagogue: BRCA, cancer and Ashkenazi genetics

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 17, 2018September 17, 2018
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai, 1949. Second from left: fashion designer Ilie Wacs, who later cowrote a book about the Shanghai Jews. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ilie Wacs)
Posted inHistory

The last of the Shanghailanders, S.F.’s unique Holocaust refugee community

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 14, 2018June 26, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckberg blowing a shofar in his Palo Alto home (Screenshot/Facebook)
Posted inHigh Holidays

WATCH: Mark Zuckerberg blows the shofar

by JTA September 12, 2018

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