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Rabbi Moshe Langer (left) gives an unhoused woman a bag while Joe Gordon (center-right) talks to an unhoused man after giving him a t-shirt during Chabad of SF’s Super Soul Party, a Super Bowl watch party for people who are unhoused, in San Francisco, Feb. 11, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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Chabad’s annual Super Bowl party is a win for unhoused San Franciscans

Aaron Levy-Wolins by Aaron Levy-Wolins February 12, 2024February 12, 2024
Kidney recipient Paul (left), who asked to remain anonymous, wraps tefillin with kidney donor Rabbi Raleigh Resnick in the hospital. (Photo/Courtesy)
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Pleasanton rabbi donates a kidney to save the life of a congregant

Valerie Demicheva by Valerie Demicheva February 12, 2024February 21, 2024
Eden Shmuel, 32, recounts surviving the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, Israel, at a private home in Piedmont, Feb. 8, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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Telling her story in Bay Area helps Oct. 7 Nova massacre survivor ‘live again’

by Sue Fishkoff February 9, 2024February 9, 2024
Clarence Jones in an ad from the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism that will air during the Super Bowl on Feb. 11. (Photo/Courtesy of FCAS)
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Civil rights icon Clarence Jones stars in Super Bowl ad about racism and antisemitism

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten February 9, 2024February 12, 2024
Left: Stained glass experts removed 35 panels of stained glass panels from Congregation B'nai Emunah's former building in San Francisco, Jan. 2024. (Photo/Congregation Am Tikvah); Right: Our 1977 story on the burning of a Nazi bookstore. (Photo/Peggy Isaak)
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S.F. synagogue’s stained-glass windows shine light on ugly Nazi incident

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 8, 2024May 29, 2024
Daniel Klein, CEO of Jewish Silicon Valley, at the site of the Nova music festival massacre. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Silicon Valley)
Posted inOpinion

Visiting Israel makes the war and hostage situation more real and urgent

Daniel Klein by Daniel Klein February 8, 2024February 9, 2024
Members of the Camp Tawonga community at a Kol Nidrei service in Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland Sept. 24, 2023. (Photo/Courtesy Camp Tawonga)
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Push for cease-fire puts Camp Tawonga on unfamiliar ground

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 7, 2024February 7, 2024
Steve Fankuchen died in January at the age of 79. (Photo/Courtesy of Eric Smith)
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Steve Fankuchen, quirky local champion of Jewish avant-garde, dies at 79

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 7, 2024February 7, 2024
A supporter of a measure requiring Hayward to divest from four companies that do business with Israel speaks at a Hayward City Council meeting on Jan. 23, 2024. (Screenshot)
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Hayward City Council’s vote to divest from Israel will have unintended consequences

Jeremy Templeton by Jeremy Templeton February 7, 2024February 8, 2024
Near the UC Berkeley campus, a truck from the organization Accuracy in Media encourages potential employers to pledge not to hire Berkeley Law students who AIM says are antisemites, Jan. 30, 2024. (Photo/Courtesy of Accuracy in Media)
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Truck that doxxes alleged antisemites returns to UC Berkeley

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 6, 2024February 7, 2024

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