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Satya Zamudio, 15, is urging Oakland's school board to eliminate its police force. (Photo/Rucha Chitnis)
Posted inEducation

Jewish youth urge Oakland school district to eliminate school police

by Gabriel Greschler June 24, 2020June 25, 2020
Congregants and guests crowd into Congregation Sherith Israel’s sanctuary in 1945 to celebrate the founding of the United Nations. (Photo/Courtesy Sherith Israel)
Posted inNews

Events to salute Jewish role in U.N.’s birth in San Francisco 75 years ago

by Dan Pine June 24, 2020June 25, 2020
The driveway into the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, April 28, 2020. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inSeniors

Two more staff at S.F. Jewish senior home test positive for Covid-19

by Gabriel Greschler June 23, 2020June 24, 2020
Empty entrance to the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, which closed its facility in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo/Courtesy OFJCC)
Posted inNews

‘Tremendously challenging’: Palo Alto JCC lays off staff, cuts budget by one-third

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman June 23, 2020June 23, 2020
Rainbow-colored challah at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav's 2018 Pride Shabbat. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inPride

Don’t let Pride’s 50th anniversary pass by. Lots of Jewish resources are available.

9mugmychalcopeland by Rabbi Mychal Copeland June 22, 2020
Restaurateur Bobby Coyote has been recognized for his contributions to Sacramento-area communities.
Posted inJewish Life

Meet Bobby Coyote, the Southwestern food king of Sacramento

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn June 22, 2020June 22, 2020
The Peninsula JCC’s  pools reopened in July. (Photo/Courtesy PJCC)
Posted inNews

‘We’ll adapt’: Peninsula JCC cuts budget by 45 percent

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman June 22, 2020
Isha Clarke, 17, a founding member of Youth Vs. Apocalypse, is one of the 2020 Tikkun Olam Award winners. (Photo/Nikki Ritcher)
Posted inNews

Prestigious Diller Tikkun Olam awards for 3 Bay Area teens

by Gabriel Greschler June 22, 2020June 23, 2020
"I’m coming out of the closet. I am Black, I am Jewish, I am queer, and on top of all that, I’m a woman, too," writes Aviva Davis.
Posted inLocal Voice

How I learned to love myself as a Black Jew

Aviva Davis by Aviva Davis June 19, 2020
Rose Hayes lights a rainbow of candles at a past Pride Seder at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav. 
Posted inReligion

‘Pride Seder,’ virtual this year, honors liberation history of LGBTQ Jews 

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky June 19, 2020June 22, 2020

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