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Rabbi Chayva Lehrman  (Photo/Emma Goss)
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Chayva Lehrman, the new rabbi at newly merged Am Tikvah, has been dreaming of this day

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss June 22, 2023

Chayva Lehrman recalls a moment during her 2002 bat mitzvah, as she was leading the congregation in prayer, when she looked out at everyone and thought, “Oh my God, I […]

Stow Lake is named for William W. Stow, speaker of the Assembly in 1855 who railed against the state’s Jews. (Photos/Wikimedia Commons, Souvenir Evening Post; Collage/Gabriel Greschler)
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Sad farewell to Meira Academy; Don’t rename Stow Lake; Breed in Israel

by J. Readers June 7, 2023June 8, 2023
Two of six past presidents of Congregation B'nai Emunah, Pete Gleichenhaus and Jeff Dielle,carry the Torah scrolls during a series of hakafot (dancing processions) as part of the ceremony to "deconsecrate" the building and bring ritual items and spirit to Am Tikvah's new home on Brotherhood Way. (Photo/Courtesy Coco Romano Giordano)
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Emotional ceremony marks end of B’nai Emunah as Torah scrolls are carried to their new home

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene June 5, 2023August 11, 2023
The Temple Judea building on Brotherhood Way, seen here around the time of its completion in 1964, is now home to Congregation Beth Israel Judea as well as Or Shalom Jewish Community. (Photo/Courtesy Congregation Beth Israel Judea)
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Newly merged S.F. synagogues announce new name: Am Tikvah

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 19, 2021November 19, 2021
Congregation Beth Israel's second building, on Geary Boulevard, was completed in 1908. It was almost completed in 1906, but was destroyed by the earthquake and had to be rebuilt. In 1969, Beth Israel merged with Temple Judea to form Congregation Beth Israel Judea. Decades later, BIJ is merging with yet another synagogue, Congregation B'nai Emunah. (Photo/Courtesy Congregation Beth Israel Judea)
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Mazel tov — it’s a merger! Two historic San Francisco synagogues become one

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 16, 2020December 16, 2020
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai on the USS General M.C. Meigs, 1949 (Photo/Courtesy U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library)
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Chinese food Kiddush and more as B’nai Emunah celebrates 70th anniversary

by J. Staff December 4, 2019December 5, 2019
(From left) Izzy Ullmann, Lisa Karpanty, Peter Ullmann, Shanghailander Ilse Ullmann, Dan Ullmann, Evelyne Kende, Ray Kende at Congregation B'nai Emunah, Sept. 8, 2019 (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
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‘We Jews had nowhere to go’: Shanghailanders step into the spotlight to tell their stories

by Gabriel Greschler September 12, 2019September 23, 2019
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai, 1949. Second from left: fashion designer Ilie Wacs, who later cowrote a book about the Shanghai Jews. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ilie Wacs)
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The last of the Shanghailanders, S.F.’s unique Holocaust refugee community

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 14, 2018June 26, 2019
Rabbi Mark Melamut with congregants Gabrielle, Joshua and Judith Edwards at farewell celebration June 9
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B’nai Emunah’s rabbi moving on to colder pastures

by Rob Gloster June 25, 2018June 27, 2018
in the painting, a row of five founders hover above a scene of fog and the golden gate bridge. behind them is a world map with lines in different colors traced on it.
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Dancing and candy at a shul founded by German Jews by way of Shanghai

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 3, 2017September 14, 2018

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