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The Forward's Rob Eshman (left) and Boichik Bagels founder Emily Winston during “The Great Bagel Off” Zoom event, Aug. 24, 2021.
Posted inSmall Bites

East Coast vs. West Coast at Forward’s virtual bagel panel; Wise Sons opens in L.A.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 25, 2021March 15, 2022
Foreground: Rabbi Daniel Lehmann is the new head of school at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School. Background: a socially distanced second-grade classroom at Hausner in July of 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Sanchez)
Posted inEducation

Rabbi Daniel Lehmann rekindles family connection as new head of Hausner school

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 25, 2021
Jack Hirschman reads from the Italian edition of his book “The Arcanes.” (Photo/Marco Cinque)
Posted inObituaries

Jack Hirschman, S.F. poet laureate and ‘bad Jew,’ dies at 87

by Patricia Corrigan August 24, 2021August 24, 2021
Left: Jacob Kaplan-Lipkin as a bar mitzvah with Cantor Doron Shapira at Peninsula Sinai in Congregation, 2010. Right: Years later, he's getting ready to help lead Peninsula Sinai for the High Holidays.
Posted inHigh Holidays

As a kid he loved his Foster City synagogue. This High Holidays, he’s going to help lead it.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 24, 2021August 24, 2021
Author Sandy Shefrin Rabin (top row, third from right) in a 1965 class photo from  I. L. Peretz, the same school that the protagonist of her debut novel attends.
Posted inBooks

Marin doctor’s debut novel is about a Jewish girl in Manitoba (just like she was)

by Liz Harris August 23, 2021August 23, 2021
A Mother's Day celebration for Afghan families hosted by JFCS East Bay in 2011. (Courtesy JFCS East Bay)
Posted inBay Area

‘We’re picking up people every day’: Jewish orgs scramble to assist Afghan refugees arriving in Bay Area

by Gabriel Greschler August 20, 2021
(Illustration/JTA-Avishek Das-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Anti-Defamation League calls on Twitter to remove Taliban accounts

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 20, 2021
Renewal Mills snickerdoodle mix is kosher and vegan.
Posted inSmall Bites

Renewal Mill’s kosher vegan treats come to Afikomen Judaica shop

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 20, 2021March 15, 2022
The synagogue of Guantanamo, Cuba, on the second floor of the Mizrahi household, on the eve of the community's 90th anniversary celebration (Photo/Laura Paull)
Posted inNews

Local fundraising event to aid Cuban Jews

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett August 20, 2021August 21, 2021
Students at Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto during the 2020-21 school year. (Photo/Deena Riddle)
Posted inEducation

Kehillah students must be vaxed. Other local Jewish schools are still weighing their options.

by Gabriel Greschler August 18, 2021August 23, 2021

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