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Illegally assembled AR-15-style assault rifle and ammunition magazines recovered during a search of Ross Farca's Concord home. (Photo/Concord Police Department)
Posted inCalifornia

Case of East Bay anti-Semitic threats begets state bill to fortify hate crimes law

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman March 12, 2020March 19, 2020
Rio American High School Principal Brian Ginter addresses parents at a meeting prompted by frustration over how he handled an incident in which a swastika was marked into dirt on the school's athletic field. (ELISSA EINHORN)
Posted inNorthern California

Sacramento high school’s response to swastika incident prompts frustration, community meeting

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn March 12, 2020March 19, 2020
Historian Jennifer Craig-Norton is the author "The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory." (inset courtesy Jennifer Craig Norton; background from book cover)
Posted inHistory

This historian draws lessons about family separation at U.S.-Mexico border from Kindertransport artifacts

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn February 26, 2020
State lawmakers visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem on a trip to Israel organized by the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, Dec. 3, 2019. (Courtesy California Legislative Jewish Caucus)
Posted inOpinion

Driven by values, Jewish legislators get it done in Sacramento

Ben AllenJesse Gabriel by Ben Allen and Jesse Gabriel February 24, 2020
Women of Wall executive director Yochi Rappeport outside an Israeli police station with “Rudy’s Torah” after it was returned January 13, 2020.
Posted inNorthern California

After outcry, Sacramento Torah confiscated at Western Wall is released

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn January 15, 2020January 21, 2020
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond (center) met with Jewish leaders on Jan. 7 to discuss the controversial draft ethnic studies curriculum for California high schools. (Photo/Twitter-Rick Hirschhaut)
Posted inNews

Jewish leaders get their say on controversial ethnic studies curriculum

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 10, 2020January 21, 2020
Nazi SS bolts in the parking lot of Central Fill, a state corrections department pharmacy in Sacramento, discovered Dec. 2017.
Posted inCalifornia

Response to Nazi symbols at state prison pharmacy worries employees

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 3, 2020January 3, 2020
Jennifer Brodkey Kaufman of Sacramento is the new chair of the North American Board of Trustees for the Union for Reform Judaism. (URJ/Rob Dicker)
Posted inNorthern California

New chair of Union for Reform Judaism is a NorCal woman — again

by Gabriel Greschler December 20, 2019January 3, 2020
One of artist Elaine Corn's ceramic menorahs.
Posted inHanukkah

After food writing career, artist finds appetite for ceramics

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 20, 2019
(From left) Rabbi Greg Wolfe, Congregation Bet Haverim; Rabbi Nancy Wechsler, Congregation Beth Shalom; Rabbi Alan Rabishaw, Temple Or Rishon; and Rabbi David Aladjem, Congregation Bet Haverim attended a forum on religious pluralism in Israel in Sacramento, Dec. 8, 2019. (Elissa Einhorn)
Posted inNorthern California

Sacramento forum takes a swing at a major Israeli issue: religious pluralism

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn December 10, 2019December 17, 2019

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