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Anatoly Smolkin, seen here in a screenshot from a security camera at Congregation Beth Sholom in 2021, has been convicted of making threats at Congregation Emanu-El.
Posted inBay Area

Local Jewish man with history of mental illness convicted of threatening S.F. synagogue

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 8, 2023August 9, 2023
Cardi B performing in Atlanta in June 2023. (Photo/JTA-Paras Griffin-Getty Images)
Posted inLocal Voice

Cardi B’s celebratory post did a lot of work with one word and two Jews

Shaina Hammerman by Shaina Hammerman August 8, 2023August 8, 2023
Ken Sims (right) returns the ball while Susan Sims looks on during a game of pickleball at the University Club in Palo Alto, July 30, 2023.  (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins).
Posted inSports

‘Kosher dills’: Jews can’t get enough of pickleball, so JCCs are making room

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss August 7, 2023August 16, 2023
Co-owner Issac Yosef at Frena shortly after it opened in 2017. (Photo/Cathleen Maclearie)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Sixth Street ‘kosher hub’ loses both of its restaurants as downtown S.F. struggles

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 7, 2023August 10, 2023
A Purim party among the trees at Chabad of Grass Valley, which serves Jews throughout Nevada County. (Photo/Courtesy Chabad of Grass Valley)
Posted inUncategorized

Jews are returning to Gold Country after panning city life

by Dan Pine August 4, 2023August 18, 2023
"The paper will have your handprints on it," student Lucas Leeds says of drawing with charcoal. "You really become part of the drawing itself." (Photo/Leslie Katz)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

With paper and charcoal, local students learn empathy for Holocaust survivors

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz August 4, 2023August 7, 2023
Richard Kluger's new book is "Hamlet's Children."
Posted inBooks

Q&A: Pulitzer-winning Berkeley author’s new novel tells story of Danish Jews in World War II

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 4, 2023May 2, 2024
The distinctive labyrinth in the playground of Commodore Sloat Elementary School in San Francisco was defaced with antisemitic graffiti last month. (Photo/FourSquare)
Posted inNews

Antisemitic graffiti covers S.F. elementary school playground

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 3, 2023August 4, 2023
Veterans of the Azov battalion march beneath flags bearing the Nazi wolfsangel symbol in Kyiv in 2019. (Photo/Wikimedia-Goo3 CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inUncategorized

Does Ukraine really have a neo-Nazi problem? US officials won’t say.

Larry Cohler-Esses by Larry Cohler-Esses August 3, 2023August 3, 2023
Detail from the cover of "The Wolf Hunt" by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Posted inBooks

Antisemitism haunts Israeli family in Silicon Valley in ‘The Wolf Hunt’

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 3, 2023August 3, 2023

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