Editorial
The local Jewish response to Covid has shown us at our best
Resilience, persistence, ingenuity and generosity. These watchwords aptly describe the Bay Area Jewish community’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.…
Editorial
Survivors are fewer and fewer. We can’t forget them now.
Every so often, it’s useful to recall the immortal words of novelist William Faulkner: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” That insight…
Music
This guitarist makes new soundscapes from old Jewish records
Folk musician and record archivist Nathan Salsburg lives on a 40-acre former tree farm in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, with fellow songwriter…
Editorial
Purim reminds us how to heal hearts through laughter
We in the temperate Bay Area do not experience the kind of deep winter freeze typically found back east or, now, even in Texas. But after a year of…
Editorial
S.F. must prioritize opening schools, not renaming them
San Francisco public schools have been closed for nearly a year now. The educational fallout from this crisis came into sharp focus this week when the…
Editorial
A new era, and what we take into it from Jan. 6
As neo-Nazis, antisemites, deluded conspiracy theorists and determined seditionists stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the world looked on in horror.…
Editorial
After a dark year, looking forward to a time of hope
With 2020 now officially in the history books, wouldn’t it be lovely if last year’s awfulness were behind us? Sadly, it is not. Yet there is reason for…
Editorial
From a dark 2020 to a shining 2021
We have Queen Elizabeth II to thank for introducing to the modern lexicon annus horribilis, a Latin phrase for “horrible year” that she used to describe…
Editorial
We need a big-tent antifascist movement
For five weeks, members of the Proud Boys, self-proclaimed “Western chauvinists” described as a right-wing extremist group by the ADL, have marched…