At SF DocFest, secrets from a Jewish mother’s hippie past By Andrew Esensten Jun 2, 2023 One day in 1969, Linda Goldfine left work at a Boston department store and hopped aboard a West Coast-bound van full of hippies she had just met. They ended up at a commune in the Santa Cruz mountains. Goldfine, who was 21 at the time, would live there for a year and a half before… Read More
Bay Area USF's new social justice grad program will make Jewish JEDIs In 2009, Erin-Kate Escobar was one of the first students to graduate from the University of San Francisco with a minor in Jewish studies and social… By Emma Goss May 31, 2023
Bay Area S.F. family who lost 'antique Judaica' in house explosion files suit David Garth and his family lost their home and all their possessions in February when their next-door neighbor’s house exploded, ripping a hole through… By Maya Mirsky May 30, 2023
Local Voice What should Stow Lake’s new name be? We asked, you answered We recently asked our readers what they think Stow Lake’s new name should be. In light of its namesake, noted antisemite and former California State… By David A.M. Wilensky May 30, 2023
Bay Area Bay Area leaders join one of the last flights of Ethiopians to Israel As she exited a chartered flight that had taken her from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Tel Aviv, Joy Sisisky found herself holding a stranger’s luggage. The… By Emma Goss May 25, 2023
Author! Author! New books by local authors cover music biz, gay history and more “Zieglitz’s Blessing” By Michael Goldberg (Cascade Books, 208 pages) Ricky Zieglitz is studying for his bar mitzvah when his family is rocked by tragedy —… By Andrew Esensten May 24, 2023
Music Jewish Folk Chorus returns with tribute to Oakland klezmer legend Adrienne Cooper has been called the mother of the modern revival of klezmer music and Yiddish songwriting. In the 1980s, when Yiddish was primarily spoken… By Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 23, 2023
Bay Area London Breed gets broad view of Israel, from Haifa to Jerusalem Mere hours before San Francisco Mayor London Breed touched down in Tel Aviv on May 9, conflict had erupted between Israel and Gaza. The boom of rockets… By Emma Goss May 22, 2023
Bay Area At 95, Sherith's Cantor Feldman reflects on a harmonious career It’s a sunny Thursday in May in downtown San Francisco. In a barber shop just off Union Square, tucked into the entrance of a parking garage, Cantor… By Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 22, 2023