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Rabbi Chayva Lehrman  (Photo/Emma Goss)
Posted inNews

Chayva Lehrman, the new rabbi at newly merged Am Tikvah, has been dreaming of this day

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss June 22, 2023
a generic image of a girl reading from the Torah
Posted inLocal Voice

How my community is trying to fix a broken b’mitzvah system

Zvika Krieger by Zvika Krieger June 22, 2023June 23, 2023
The graffiti included a  swastika and other symbols. At the request of the congregation, J. has agreed to blur some of it. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inNews

Swastika spray-painted on Peninsula Sinai Congregation in Foster City

by Dan Pine June 21, 2023June 23, 2023
Jay Rosenblatt and daughter Ella, 17, in 2018 from his film "How Do You Measure A Year?"
Posted inFilm

‘How Do You Measure a Year?’ Oscar-nominated documentary of S.F. girl’s time-lapse childhood comes to HBO

by Dan Pine June 21, 2023June 21, 2023
Artist’s rendering of the new JFCS Holocaust Center exhibit space. (Photo/Courtesy JFCS)
Posted inNews

Jewish Family and Children’s Services kicks off $45M drive to expand S.F. Holocaust Center

by J. Staff June 21, 2023June 21, 2023
Cleavon Little (left) and Gene Wilder in "Blazing Saddles."
Posted inFilm

S.F. Jewish Film Fest 2023 lineup announced: Gene Wilder, Bella Abzug, ‘Prince of Egypt’

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 20, 2023July 5, 2023
Shlomo Carlebach at his 1960s base of operations, the House of Love and Prayer in San Francisco
Posted inLetters

Weaponizing the Holocaust; Carlebach and the perils of adulation; Etc.

by J. Readers June 20, 2023
Kosher Oasis customers enjoying their meal al fresco at the Oshman Family JCC. (Photo/Courtesy Rabbi Joey Felsen)
Posted inJewish Life

Kosher community loses ‘oasis’ of falafel, sushi and Yemenite specialties at Palo Alto JCC

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 19, 2023June 27, 2023
Vi poses in Battery Park in New York City, dressed as her great-great-grandmother Carolina in 1881. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inFashion

Watch this Oakland YouTuber recreate her great-great-grandmother’s Shabbat dress

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss June 19, 2023June 21, 2023
two people walk past a large brick building
Posted inCulture

Chad Coerver to step down as Contemporary Jewish Museum director after two years

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 16, 2023June 16, 2023

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