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Sue Bird drives to the basket in the women’s gold medal game between the United States and Spain at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Aug. 20, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Tom Pennington-Getty Images)
Posted inSports

All the Jewish athletes to watch at the Tokyo Olympics

by Emily Burack and JTA July 6, 2021
Two men holding a JCC East Bay banner
Posted inPhilanthropy

East Bay fellowship aims to become farm system for future Jewish leaders

by J. Staff July 2, 2021July 2, 2021
Dr. Stephen Hall smiles with his "Covid-19 Vaccination Record Card" after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, Dec. 21, 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inBay Area

Vaccine registry part of some synagogue reopening plans

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman June 30, 2021July 6, 2021
Jewish educator Rachel Biale and her husband, UC Davis Jewish Studies Professor David Biale, are behind a new initiative designed to replace the closing HaMaqom.
Posted inEducation

New Lehrhaus rises from HaMaqom’s ashes

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman June 29, 2021June 30, 2021
an older woman happily holds out her arms to greet an old friend in a large synagogue sanctuary
Posted inNews

Synagogues reopen their doors after long, arduous year

by Gabriel Greschler June 24, 2021June 24, 2021
A still from the musical "A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff," one of many films screening at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival this year.
Posted inFilm

Madoff musical, Holocaust revenge and Saul Bellow at 2021 S.F. Jewish Film Festival

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 24, 2021July 21, 2021
Rabbi Zoe McCoon is a Detroit native who is moving to the Bay Area for her first rabbinical post at Temple Beth Torah in Fremont.
Posted inNews

‘Joyful, welcoming, wise’: Beth Torah gets new rabbi with roots in Flint, Michigan

by Gabriel Greschler June 23, 2021
Rabbi Dorothy Richman teaches a Talmud course in 2013 offered through HaMaqom (then called Lehrhaus Judaica), which has announced it will close at the end of its 2021 summer term. (Photo/File)
Posted inEducation

Decision to close HaMaqom ‘irreversible,’ leadership says

by Sue Fishkoff June 22, 2021June 23, 2021
The housing situation in Berkeley is dire. So why is the city's rent board wasting its time condemning Israel? (Photo/Flickr-bryce_nesbitt CC BY 2.0)
Posted inUncategorized

Berkeley’s housing crisis has nothing to do with Israel

Rabbi Joshua Ladon by Rabbi Joshua Ladon June 21, 2021June 23, 2021
Jehon Grist teaching Hebrew in the early days of Lehrhaus Judaica, now know as HaMaqom | The Place, which has announced it will be shutting its doors for good at the end of its summer term. (Photo/File)
Posted inEducation

Jewish education hub HaMaqom to close after 47 years

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman June 17, 2021June 22, 2021

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