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The scene outside La Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, bedecked with Tunisian flags for the annual Lag B'Omer pilgrimage. (Photo/Adam Eilath)
Posted inOpinion

Tragedy can’t overshadow the joys of our Tunisian Jewish pilgrimage

Adam Eilath by Adam Eilath May 24, 2023May 24, 2023
A member of Congregation Shirat Ha-Yam in Odesa, Ukraine, with a power generator donated by members of Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills.
Posted inNews

Congregation Beth Am is sending vital aid to Ukrainian Jewish communities

by Sue Fishkoff May 23, 2023May 23, 2023
Blowing the shofar for religious school students at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. (Photo/Facebook-Congregation Emanu-El)
Posted inEducation

How a national drop in religious school attendance is affecting Bay Area Jews

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 11, 2023May 12, 2023

Boichik Bagels – Palo Alto

by [email protected] May 11, 2023March 4, 2026
(From left) Christine Dwyer, Leo Ash Evens and Nkrumah Gatling in "Ragtime" at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, June 2-26. TheatreWorks is one of dozens of Bay Area arts institutions to receive grants from the Koret Foundation announced May 8, 2023. (Photo/David Allen)
Posted inCulture

Koret Foundation injects $6M into Bay Area’s major arts institutions

by J. Staff May 10, 2023May 10, 2023
Environmentalist and former Member of Knesset Alon Tal at a May 7 rally in Sunnyvale against Israel's proposed judicial reform organized by the Israeli expat group UnXeptable. (Photo/Galit Lipsitz Goldenthal)
Posted inNews

Alon Tal, former MK and Israeli environmentalism pioneer, has strong words for Israel today

by Dan Pine May 10, 2023May 10, 2023
In our May 17, 1985 issue, we profiled three Russian emigres making it big in Silicon Valley.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Jews have been part of Silicon Valley from the start

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 3, 2023May 3, 2023
J-Ventures investors meet in Palo Alto in April 2023. (Photo/Courtesy J-Ventures)
Posted inTech

This Jewish-founded VC fund calls its unusual funding model a ‘capitalist kibbutz’

Valerie Demicheva by Valerie Demicheva April 26, 2023July 22, 2025

Chabad SJSU

by Shaya Bernstein April 23, 2023March 26, 2026
Scott Gerber, a Jewish rancher and musician in Petaluma, appears in "Jews of the Wild West." (Photo/Electric Yolk Media)
Posted inFilm

‘Jews of the Wild West,’ set to air on KQEH, tips hat to ‘Girl Rabbi’ from S.F.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 21, 2023April 24, 2023

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