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Left: Devorie and Rabbi Menachem Levin inside the former movie theater now being used by Chabad West Portal. Right: The Portal Theater when it opened in 1925.
Posted inBay Area

Chabad brings new life to S.F. cinema with a Jewish backstory

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 22, 2023March 22, 2023
The “California Modernist Women: Groundbreaking Creativity” exhibit at SFO (Photo/Courtesy SFO Museum)
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Before your flight, catch this SFO exhibit of midcentury art by California women

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 22, 2023March 29, 2023

Sinai Memorial Chevra Kadisha, San Francisco, East Bay, Peninsula

by Liz March 21, 2023May 19, 2026
San Jose Fire Station 3, where Casilia Loessberg used to work. (Photo/San Jose Fire Department)
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Ex–firefighter’s lawsuit says her superior was a ‘known Nazi sympathizer’

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 21, 2023March 22, 2023

Chabad of Almaden

by [email protected] March 20, 2023May 14, 2026
Barbara Quick is the author of the novel "What Disappears."
Posted inBooks

‘What Disappears’: Jewish twins separated as kids reunite in Bay Area author’s latest novel

Joan Gelfand by Joan Gelfand March 20, 2023March 22, 2023
an older woman happily holds out her arms to greet an old friend in a large synagogue sanctuary
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After three years of Covid, synagogues have ‘new normal’ 

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 20, 2023March 20, 2023
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber found this antisemitic flyer, typical of the flyers distributed by the Goyim Defense League hate group, while out on a walk with his wife in January 2022. (Photo/JTA-Dan Gelber via Twitter)
Posted inNews

A Florida bill would ban ‘ethnic intimidation’ flyers used by neo-Nazis

by Andrew Lapin and JTA March 17, 2023March 17, 2023
Participants of JCRC Bay Area's AAPI-Jewish solidarity trip dining at the NewBigWong restaurant in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown. (Photo/Courtesy Tyler Gregory)
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Bay Area Jewish and AAPI leaders talk shared concerns at White House

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene March 17, 2023March 17, 2023
R. Elysa Gurman spoke up in support of a housing proposal for unhoused people in her area of Santa Clara at a community meeting, March 1, 2023. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inLocal Voice

Housing the unhoused: If not now, when? And if not in your neighborhood, where?

R. Elysa Gurman by R. Elysa Gurman March 17, 2023March 17, 2023

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