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Congregation Beth Shalom

Rabbi Nancy Wechsler (center-right) is retiring from Congregation Beth Shalom, a small Reform synagogue in Carmichael, just outside of Sacramento. (Courtesy)
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Sacramento area synagogue honors retiring Rabbi Nancy Wechsler

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss May 26, 2026May 29, 2026

Updated at 4 p.m. After 23 years at the helm of Congregation Beth Shalom, a small Reform synagogue in Carmichael outside Sacramento, Rabbi Nancy Wechsler is stepping down from its […]

an older woman happily holds out her arms to greet an old friend in a large synagogue sanctuary
Posted inBay Area

As local rules relax, Bay Area congregations return to their sanctuaries

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss October 15, 2021October 26, 2021
Miriam Root is a past president of Congregation Beth Shalom in Marysville, and has been a member for more than 30 years. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inUncategorized, Northern California

Gold Country synagogue may be sold, members to focus on philanthropy

by Gabriel Greschler August 27, 2021August 31, 2021
Rabbi Mark Bloom streams a live Shabbat service from Temple Beth Abraham in Oakland, May 2020. (Photo/Michael Fox)
Posted inHigh Holidays

Covid, race protests, wildfires on tap for High Holiday sermons

by Sue Fishkoff September 8, 2020September 8, 2020
A fire in Napa County as seen from Middletown in Lake County, Aug. 19, 2020. (Photo/Jade May)
Posted inNorthern California

Torahs packed and synagogues on high alert as fires bear down in North Bay

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky and Gabriel Greschler August 19, 2020August 20, 2020
Screenshot from Nick Beitcher's Instagram.
Posted inSmall Bites

Hotline for home bread makers; kosher takeout and delivery in East Bay

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 27, 2020April 30, 2020
3d print of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/Flickr CC BA 2.0)
Posted inUncategorized

Bay Area Jewish orgs respond to coronavirus: Israel trips canceled, but wait and see on local steps

by Gabriel Greschler February 28, 2020March 6, 2020
“L’Chaim Napa Valley” at Congregation Beth Shalom in Napa in 2018 (Photo/Janna Waldinger, Art & Clarity Photography)
Posted inUncategorized

Let the wine flow at Napa’s ‘Synagogue of the Vintners’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall October 10, 2019October 15, 2019
A woman with her back to the camera; the back of her jacket reads: "I really do care, don't you?"
Posted inNews

Around the Bay and at the border, Jews fan out to protest child detention

by Dan Pine June 28, 2018June 28, 2018

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