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Pieces of concrete thrown at Chabad of Oakland shattered the bullet-resistant safety glass on the storefront-style Chabad center on June 21 and July 6. (Courtesy)
Posted inBay Area

Attacker hurls chunk of concrete at Oakland Chabad center — again

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman July 8, 2024July 9, 2024
Security guard Frank Collins confronts NAG protester Marvis Saunders at Glen Echo Amusement Park on June 30, 1960. (Courtesy SFJFF)
Posted inTV & Film

S.F. Jewish Film Festival: ‘Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round’ revisits first Black-Jewish civil rights protest

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 8, 2024July 12, 2024
The late Chabad rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in Brooklyn, May 1987 (Photo/Wikimedia CC BY 3.0)
Posted inLocal Voice

Remembering Rabbi Schneerson, who believed a single mitzvah could change the world

Rabbi Mendy Cohen by Rabbi Mendy Cohen July 8, 2024July 8, 2024
Tessa Veksler at the May 20 celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month at the White House. (Courtesy)
Posted inNews

At 22, East Bay native Tessa Veksler is a Jewish leader with national sway

Natalie Weinstein in downtown San Francisco, Feb. 24, 2026. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Natalie Weinstein July 5, 2024December 4, 2024
Emil Knopf with a Sinai Memorial Chapel hat on at Sinai's Hanukkah outreach booth in San Francisco's Union Square, 2022. Sinai was one of many Jewish organizations Knopf donated his time to over the years. (Courtesy)
Posted inObituaries

Emil Knopf, Holocaust survivor, Levi Strauss executive, community volunteer dies at 91

by Dan Pine July 5, 2024July 8, 2024
a person with long blond hair wearing all pink dances inside a restaurant
Posted inFood

A final farewell to Solomon’s Delicatessen and other Bay Area Jewish food upates

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 5, 2024July 31, 2024
"Shari & Lamb Chop" is the opening night selection of this year's San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. (Courtesy SFJFF)
Posted inFilm

S.F. Jewish Film Festival 2024: New venues, new voices and a guest festival director

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 3, 2024July 12, 2024
Chabad of Oakland's menorah at Lake Merritt on Dec. 10, 2023 (right), two days before it was vandalized, pulled down and thrown in the lake (left). (Courtesy Chabad of Oakland)
Posted inCalifornia

Report: Anti-Jewish hate crimes in California rose at ‘alarming’ rate last year

by Sue Fishkoff July 3, 2024July 3, 2024
Claude Rains wears a tricorn and a tallis as Haym Salomon in a still from "Sons of Liberty" from 1939. (Screenshot)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Saluting Jewish founding father Haym Salomon this Independence Day

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 3, 2024July 3, 2024
Gavin Newsom meets with a Californian survivor of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in October. (Courtesy office of the Governor)
Posted inPolitics

Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom and other talked-about contenders to replace Joe Biden, and their Jewish stories

by Ron Kampeas July 3, 2024July 3, 2024

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