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Aviva Black founded Family Love Letters in 2018.
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Oakland woman helps connect generations of families through letter-writing

by Flora Tsapovsky February 4, 2022February 7, 2022
Michael Pappas, executive director of the San Francisco Interfaith Council, addresses the Colleyville hostage crisis in a speech delivered from the bimah at Congregation Emanu-El on Jan. 21, 2022. (Screenshot)
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Interfaith leader: Why I stand with Colleyville’s Jews

by Michael Pappas February 3, 2022February 4, 2022
Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "Maus" on sale at a French bookstore in 2017. (Photo/JTA-ActuaLitté-Flickr Commons)
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You can’t just swap out ‘Maus’ for another Holocaust book. It’s special.

Jennifer Caplan by Jennifer Caplan and JTA February 1, 2022
State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco on July 29, 2021. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

Bay Area Jewish orgs get $4.2M from state’s ‘target hardening’ grants

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 25, 2022January 26, 2022
Gun control activist Loren Lieb (right) and her son, Josh Stepakoff, who survived a 1999 shooting at the North Valley Jewish Community Center.
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Jewish activist and legislators line up behind state’s proposed new gun law 

by Ryan Torok January 18, 2022January 20, 2022
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker was held hostage inside Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, Jan. 15, 2022.
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‘Quite simply a mensch’: Meet Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, freed after hostage crisis at his synagogue

by Andrew Lapin and JTA January 16, 2022
(Photo/Jean-Baptiste Carhaix, courtesy GLBT Historical Society)
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Sadie, Sadie the Rabbi Lady was a revolutionary Jewish drag queen in S.F.

by Rachel Greiner and Hey Alma January 14, 2022January 25, 2022
Susan Aronovsky visits with her 94-year-old father, Albert Stark, at the S.F. Campus for Jewish Living on March 29, the first time they had seen each other in over a year. (Photo/Camille Cohen)
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New California public health rules make it harder to visit relatives in nursing homes

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 13, 2022
David Arfin at the Arava Institute in Israel.
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How to put viable climate solutions into the hands of the people

David Arfin by David Arfin January 13, 2022January 13, 2022
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Lifecycles for the week of Jan. 7, 2022

by J. Staff January 7, 2022January 20, 2022

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