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Posted inFilm

WinterFest teams up with S.F. IndieFest to premiere locally produced doc ‘Among Neighbors’

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 5, 2025February 5, 2025
a close up of two people's hands holding "chambongs" — which resemble champagne flute glasses, but are held at an angle with the stem curving away from the glass as a straw
Posted inOrganic Epicure

How a wine bar’s Vietnamese chef and Jewish manager came to love each other’s cultures

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 5, 2025February 6, 2025
(From left) Rabbi Menachem Margolin of the European Jewish Association, Elon Musk and right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro stand on stage at an EJA conference in Krakow, Poland, Jan. 22, 2024. (Courtesy EJA)
Posted inLocal Voice

Does Elon Musk hate Jews in his heart of hearts? That’s not the point

Jason Harris (Courtesy) by Jason Harris February 5, 2025February 5, 2025
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‘Such a Match!’ episode 3: The journalist who got scooped

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 4, 2025February 4, 2025
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Trump’s anti-trans executive orders terrify me — and they should scare you too

Jonah Sam Kaye by Jonah "Sam" Kaye February 4, 2025February 6, 2025
The steps of a large academic building are crowded with small tents and banners with messages such as "Glory to the Martyrs" and "Student Intifada"
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One point of consistency amid Trump’s rapid changes: a drumbeat of federal campus antisemitism investigations

by Andrew Lapin February 4, 2025February 4, 2025
In "Bad Shabbos," Cliff "Method Man" Smith plays a doorman who helps a frazzled Jewish family deal with an unforeseen catastrophe. (Courtesy)
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At Sacramento Jewish film fest, have a ‘Bad Shabbos’ with the ‘Sabbath Queen’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull February 3, 2025February 4, 2025
“Intifada” and an upside-down red triangle representing Hamas were spray-painted on a mailbox at UC Berkeley in May 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish groups urge Cal to ‘reconsider’ Feb. event after panelists’ extreme anti-Israel statements

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 31, 2025February 5, 2025
Virtual memorial plaques are projected on the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Marcin Kozlowski-March of the Living)
Posted inEducation

State study on K-12 Holocaust education finds much is left to teachers’ ‘individual initiative’

by Ryan Torok January 31, 2025January 31, 2025
From left, Susanne Batzdorff, Evelyn Gurevitch and Edith Newman have been friends and Congregation Beth Ami members for decades. (Ron Batzdorff)
Posted inSeniors

‘Temple is people, and I need people’: Three women over 100 find joy in Santa Rosa synagogue — and each other

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz January 31, 2025February 4, 2025

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