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Frank Gehry
Posted inObituaries

Frank Gehry, renowned architect who began life as Frank Goldberg, dies at 96

by Grace Gilson December 8, 2025December 8, 2025

(JTA) — Frank Gehry, a Jewish architect who became one of the world’s most renowned innovators in his field for his contributions to modernist architecture, including the famed Guggenheim Museum […]

Congregation Emanu-El CFO Elena Gary visits the synagogue, which is now very much under renovation, Aug. 2, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inPhotos

Emanu-El’s centennial face-lift is underway 

Aaron Levy-Wolins by Aaron Levy-Wolins August 18, 2023August 21, 2023
Architectural rendering of the planned renovation of Congregation Emanu-El's building in San Francisco.
Posted inBay Area

S.F. officials approve Congregation Emanu-El’s $91 million remodel and retrofit

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky January 17, 2023January 17, 2023
Architectural rendering of Congregation Rodef Sholom's new building, which will be built on the site of the previous one. (Courtesy/Herman Coliver Locus Architecture)
Posted inNews

Gleaming new building on the way for Rodef Sholom in San Rafael

by Dan Pine July 13, 2022July 19, 2022
Eric Salitsky at the Cadet Interfaith Center on the campus of West Point, which was one of the stops on his 2019 tour of multifaith spaces in North America and Europe. (Photo/Tamara Cohen)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish architect Eric Salitsky’s memorial gifts benefit Oakland ‘Designing Justice’ firm

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 2, 2022May 14, 2024
Portrait of architect Daniel Libeskind
Posted inarchitecture

Daniel Libeskind to design new Pittsburgh Tree of Life shul

by Toby Tabachnik and JTA May 7, 2021
Architectural rendering of building and parking lot
Posted inNews

Pleasanton ‘excited’ for Chabad rebuild of fire-damaged center

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 30, 2021April 30, 2021
A view from the entrance to Kol Emeth's new sanctuary, looking straight at the Ark.
Posted inNews

Palo Alto shul’s new building blends Biblical old and Silicon Valley new

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten February 23, 2021March 4, 2021
A typical Eichler home in Sunnyvale. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inJewish Life

Famous for his California homes, this Jewish developer pushed to integrate the burbs

by Lisa Keys and JTA August 5, 2020August 5, 2020
illustration of the front of a beige building with an entrance on the right
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Renovation of historic S.F. synagogue slowed but not halted

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky July 15, 2020July 16, 2020

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