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Two thirds of the "Chopped: Chabad of Contra Costa" winning team: (from left) Susan Wang and Larisa Bukh (Photo/Alix Wall)
Posted inColumns

Whiskey and fry — ‘Chopped’ latke competition gets fierce

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 13, 2017
Daryl Messinger of Palo Alto, chair of the Union for Reform Judaism board of trustees, addressing the record crowd of 6,000 at URJ Biennial in Boston, Dec. 7, 2017 (Photo/Courtesy URJ)
Posted inNews

Israel, sexual assault and the future weigh on largest-ever Reform gathering

by Penny Schwartz December 12, 2017March 19, 2018
Mayor Ed Lee looking out over San Francisco's sister city of Haifa, Israel, in April 2016 (Photo/Dan Pine)
Posted inNews

Bay Area Jews mourn Mayor Ed Lee

by Rob Gloster December 12, 2017
Shlomo Carlebach at his 1960s base of operations, the House of Love and Prayer in San Francisco
Posted inOpinion

How to purge the music of Shlomo Carlebach in the age of #MeToo

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 12, 2017December 12, 2017
Adam Berman is the director of Urban Adamah, one of the key organizations in the JOFEE movement.
Posted inNews

As back-to-the-land Judaism booms, new training for midcareer educators

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 12, 2017March 19, 2018
Israeli music icon David Broza
Posted inCulture

David Broza bringing music, message of peace to S.F.

by Avishay Artsy December 12, 2017December 11, 2017
Rabbi Yosef Langer of Chabad of S.F. lights the Bill Graham menorah in Union Square in 2014. (Photo/Natalie Schrik)
Posted inJewish Life

Kindle the lights and pass the latkes — menorah lightings around the Bay

by J. Staff December 12, 2017December 13, 2017
Dennis Prager speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland (Photo/Flickr-Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

Noisy hecklers and personal barbs at on-stage Israel debate

by Dan Pine December 11, 2017December 12, 2017
Members of the 2017-18 seventh-grade class at the Brandeis School of San Francisco (Photo/JTA-Ben Sales)
Posted inEducation

S.F. students put philanthropy ahead of b’nai mitzvah gifts

Ben Sales by Ben Sales December 11, 2017
From the cover of 
Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas," one of many Jewish children's books delivered free to Jewish families across the country
Posted inJewish Life

PJ Library will gives East Bay families $150 to ‘get together’

by J. Staff December 8, 2017

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