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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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