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Pit master Andy Knudson at a Meat Carneval event in Austin, Texas, earlier this year. (Photo/Instagram)
Posted inSmall Bites

Meat Carneval’s promise to East Bay: ‘From a butcher block straight into your mouth’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 8, 2023June 8, 2023
Sen. Dianne Feinstein walks to the Senate Chambers at the U.S. Capitol Building, Feb. 13, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Anna Moneymaker-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Of course Dianne Feinstein doesn’t want to go. Neither did Moses.

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward May 8, 2023
San Francisco Mayor London Breed (left) with Israel's Deputy Consul General Matan Zamir.
Posted inNews

Mayor London Breed heading to Israel for 50th anniversary of S.F.-Haifa Sister City relationship

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 5, 2023May 12, 2023
“The Scottsboro Boys" has a nearly all-Black cast and uses the structure of a minstrel show as a narrative device to expose the racism of white Southerners. (Photo/42nd Street Moon)
Posted inTheater

‘Scottsboro Boys’: Kander and Ebb’s musical about racism and injustice playing in S.F.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 5, 2023May 11, 2023
Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man in 2011. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inReligion

Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man of Berkeley, leader in Jewish meditation who met with the Dalai Lama, dies at 89

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA May 5, 2023May 5, 2023
Photo of the UC Santa Cruz McHenry Library (Photo/Wikicommons)
Posted inNorthern California

Santa Cruz students reportedly hold birthday party for Hitler

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 4, 2023May 4, 2023
Hadar's flagship program is its beit midrash in New York City. (Photo/Courtesy Hadar Institute)
Posted inCalifornia

Hadar to open California outpost, bringing its brand of Jewish learning to the West Coast

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA May 4, 2023May 7, 2023
Rep. Jared Huffman speaking at a campaign event.
Posted inNews

Two Bay Area reps vote no on resolution congratulating Israel on 75 years of independence

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 3, 2023May 8, 2023
Jeremy Gordin offers a toast in an undated family photo. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Gordin family)
Posted inObituaries

South African journalist Jeremy Gordin, former J. staffer, murdered in home burglary at 70

by Marcel Gascón Barberá and JTA May 3, 2023
In our May 17, 1985 issue, we profiled three Russian emigres making it big in Silicon Valley.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Jews have been part of Silicon Valley from the start

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 3, 2023May 3, 2023

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