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Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld surveys the damage at the Chabad House in south San Jose, Dec. 2021. (Photo/Emma Goss)
Posted inBay Area

Fire destroys new Chabad synagogue in San Jose, spares Torahs

by Emma Goss December 23, 2021January 5, 2022
Across the country, Chabads report that ads for a course on antisemitism, many featuring variations on this promotional art, were rejected by Facebook.
Posted inBay Area

‘Collateral damage’: Why is Facebook rejecting ads for Chabad antisemitism course?

by Emma Goss November 5, 2021November 8, 2021
A swastika was found painted on Temple Sinai’s carved wooden door in Oakland, Oct. 18, 2020. (Photo/Courtesy Temple Sinai)
Posted inBay Area

Bay Area Jews ask: Should our buildings be visibly Jewish?

by Eliyahu Kamisher October 13, 2021October 14, 2021
Jon Grobman kneels with a rescue dog that he is training as part of Paws for Life K9 Rescue, a nonprofit that brings dogs into prisons like the one where Grobman was incarcerated for 13 years. (Image/JTA-Grace Yagel; Photo/Courtesy Grobman)
Posted inUncategorized

He was sentenced to life in prison. Rescue dogs — and a rabbi — helped him find redemption.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and JTA August 31, 2021August 31, 2021
Rabbi Menachem and Devorie Levin, founders of the new Chabad in San Francisco's West Portal neighborhood.
Posted inBay Area

New West Portal Chabad brings the beef

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 9, 2021August 10, 2021
One of the only Jewish kids in Key West, Gili Sanouf, 17, sorts through T-shirts and beachwear at the souvenir shop owned by his parents. (Photo/Larry Luxner)
Posted inHistory

The Jews of Key West: Making a home again in Margaritaville

by JTA and Larry Luxner August 3, 2021
The Litchfield Judicial District Courthouse in Litchfield, Connecticut. (Photo/RNS-AP-Dave Collins)
Posted inOpinion

How a little-known federal land use law could help combat antisemitism in America

Noel Sterett by Noel Sterett and RNS July 20, 2021
A rabbi was stabbed outside the Shaloh House Jewish Day School, seen here, in Boston's Brighton neighborhood on July 1, 2021. (Screenshot/Google Maps)
Posted inU.S.

Rabbi stabbed in front of Jewish day school and synagogue in Boston

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA July 1, 2021
Rabbi Eliot Pearlson, in kippah, leads a psalm as he speaks to members of his congregation in the wake of the collapse of the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, June 25, 2021. Pearlson, who has a number of his congregants among the missing, is the rabbi at Temple Menorah just a few blocks from the collapsed condos. (Photo/JTA-Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

‘It’s going to be a rough road’: In Surfside, the Jewish community braced for bad news on a somber Shabbat

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 28, 2021
Following the appearance of anti-Israel graffiti at Gan Noe Preschool, the children decorated a banner offering Shabbat greetings to the neighborhood.
Posted inNews

S.F. Chabad preschool vandalized with ‘Death to Israel’

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 25, 2021May 26, 2021

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