• News
    • News
    • Bay Area
    • U.S.
    • Israel
    • World
  • Culture
    • Culture
    • Books
    • Art
    • TV & Film
    • On Stage
    • Music
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Letters
    • Editorials
  • Jewish Life
    • Jewish Life
    • Community
    • Lifecycles
    • Obituaries
    • Food
    • Religion
    • Education
    • Kids & Family
    • Seniors
    • Philanthropy
  • Calendar
  • Donate
    • Newsletter
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Instagram
  • Subscribe to our Newsletter

      • Archives
      • Readers’ Choice 2021
      • Jewish Resource Guide
      • Subscribe
        • Subscribe to J. Print
        • Newsletter Signup
        • Renew Subscription
      • Contact
        • Contact J.
        • Change of address
        • Renew Subscription
        • Advertise

      The Jewish News

      of Northern California

      • Subscribe
        • Subscribe to J. Print
        • Change of address
        • Renew Subscription
        • Newsletter Signup
      • Contact
      • About
      • News
        • Bay Area
        • U.S.
        • Israel
        • World
      • Culture
        • Books
        • Art
        • TV & Film
        • On Stage
        • Music
      • Opinion
        • Columns
        • Letters
        • Editorials
      • Jewish Life
        • Community
        • Lifecycles
        • Obituaries
        • Food
        • Religion
        • Education
        • Kids & Family
        • Seniors
        • Philanthropy
      • Calendar
      • Archives
      • Jewish Resource Guide
      • DONATE
        • Donors
      • Newsletter
      • Facebook
      • Twitter
      • Instagram
      a white man with a black mask over her nose and mouth stands at the front of a classroom

      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.…
      By J. Editorial Board Mar 18, 2021
      Lori, a Holocaust survivor from the JFCS Holocaust Center speakers' bureau, addresses students in March 2019. (Photo/Trish Tunney)

      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…
      By J. Editorial Board Mar 4, 2021
      Nathan Salsburg in a barn on his property, which also functions as his office. (Photo/Joan Shelley)

      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…
      By Daniel Bromfield, JTA Mar 4, 2021
      Kiki Lipsett as Esther in the 2019 "Irreverently Yours, The Shushan Queens" Purim spiel at the Starline Social Club in Oakland. (Photo/Courtesy Kiki Lipsett)

      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…
      By J. Editorial Board Feb 18, 2021
      Feinstein Elementary, named for current U.S. Senator and former San Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein, will be renamed under the new plan. (Photo/Google Maps)

      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…
      By J. Editorial Board Feb 4, 2021
      Capitol building all decked out for inauguration, with banners and flags everywhere

      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.…
      By J. Editorial Board Jan 20, 2021
      Mary Ann Salinas holds up two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, Dec. 21, 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)

      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…
      By J. Editorial Board Jan 6, 2021
      a lit menorah

      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…
      By J. Editorial Board Dec 17, 2020
      Members of the Proud Boys flash a hand gesture associated with white supremacy at a pro-Trump rally in Sacramento on Nov. 28, 2020. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)

      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…
      By J. Editorial Board Dec 9, 2020
      Previous PageNext Page
      • Readers’ Choice 2021
      • About
      • Contact/Submissions
      • Careers at J.
      • Advertise
      • Subscribe
      • Terms of Use
      • Facebook
      • Twitter
      • Instagram