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Michael Pappas, executive director of the San Francisco Interfaith Council, addresses the Colleyville hostage crisis in a speech delivered from the bimah at Congregation Emanu-El on Jan. 21, 2022. (Screenshot)
Posted inUncategorized

Interfaith leader: Why I stand with Colleyville’s Jews

by Michael Pappas February 3, 2022February 4, 2022
Art Spiegelman, author of "Maus," poses in Paris, March 20, 2012. (Photo/JTA-Bertrand Langlois-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

The great ‘Maus’ giveaway is on as comic shops, professors and churches counter Tennessee school board’s ban

by Andrew Lapin and JTA February 2, 2022February 2, 2022
Signs inside Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco remind congregants to keep locked doors closed at all times for safety. (Photo/Rabbi Abby Phelps)
Posted inBay Area

Local synagogues ramp up security training after Colleyville

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 1, 2022February 2, 2022
Doan Trang's cover art for Raphael Falk's "Lucid: Sea of Dreams" roleplaying game
Posted inGames

Enter a ‘sea of dreams’ in Jewish-themed role-playing game

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 1, 2022
Jennieke Cohen is the author of the new historical novel “My Fine Fellow: A Delicious Entanglement.”
Posted inBooks

Author Jennieke Cohen draws on her Filipina-Jewish heritage in new take on ‘My Fair Lady’

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten January 31, 2022February 1, 2022
Retired Germany school teacher Josef Wisskirchen (Photo/Moritz Richard Schmidt)
Posted inNews

How a German teacher helped a local rabbi’s mother know her family history

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 31, 2022February 1, 2022
Below the fold on the front page of our May 20, 1994 issue
Posted inNews

That time Stephen Breyer was kicked out of the Soviet Union, and five other tidbits from our archives

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten January 28, 2022June 21, 2022
Leon Rajninger was born in Czernowitz, Romania in 1931 and was 10 years old when the Nazis invaded in 1941.
Posted inBay Area

Diplomats join local survivor for Holocaust Remembrance Day event

by Dan Pine January 28, 2022
Cold brew coffee from Park Cafe; Proprietors Dana Oppenheim (left) and Rachel Herbert (right) with their son.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

These cafés have always sent people packing (to the park)

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 27, 2022March 15, 2022
Granddaughter and grandfather Ronnie and Ariel Cohen. (Photo/Courtesy Friends of Israel Defense Forces)
Posted inNews

Survivor’s granddaughter from Livermore now a sergeant in Israeli army

by Ryan Torok January 26, 2022January 27, 2022

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