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Congregation Emanu-El

Rabbi Sydney Mintz joined Congregation Emanu-El’s staff in 1997, just after her ordination from the Reform movement’s seminary. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Rabbi Sydney Mintz to step down after 29 years at Emanu-El. She’s not going anywhere.

by Dan Pine May 12, 2026May 13, 2026

Applause and laughter rang out at Congregation Emanu-El’s epic Shabbat service as speakers lauded Rabbi Sydney Mintz, who will become rabbi emerita this summer after a 29-year tenure. Emanu-El Senior […]

A member of security staff during a community safety event hosted by the Oakland Jewish Alliance at Temple Beth Abraham in Oakland, Sept. 7, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

How Bay Area Jewish orgs are re-examining security after the Michigan attack

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi March 16, 2026March 16, 2026
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, who is also a cantor, performs "Over the Rainbow" at the end of her Dec. 3 event at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. (Courtesy JCCSF/Justin Halgren)
Posted inIdeas

In S.F., first Asian American rabbi describes how she found her ‘truest home’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 4, 2025December 5, 2025
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl and artists
Posted inBay Area

In Rabbi Angela Buchdahl’s story, local Jews of color find hope

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb December 1, 2025December 1, 2025
Left: The original Temple Emanu-El, which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. Right: Portrait of Julie Rosewald from "A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches," 1893
Posted inFrom the Archives

Meet Madam Julie Rosewald, the world’s first woman cantor

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky October 21, 2025October 21, 2025
American-Israeli author and journalist Yossi Klein Halevi speaks at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, May 21, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inIdeas

Netanyahu must be ousted, Israeli thinker Yossi Klein Halevi says in S.F.

by Sue Fishkoff May 27, 2025May 27, 2025
Emanu-El clergy lead the congregation in prayer. (Sasha Yevelev)
Posted inBay Area

San Francisco’s historic Emanu-El refreshes its team of rabbis for a new era

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 4, 2024December 6, 2024
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
Anatoly Smolkin, seen here in a screenshot from a security camera at Congregation Beth Sholom in 2021, has been convicted of making threats at Congregation Emanu-El.
Posted inBay Area

Local Jewish man with history of mental illness convicted of threatening S.F. synagogue

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 8, 2023August 9, 2023
(From left) Kaitlin Brennan, Gabby Powell, Portia Kadlecek and Hannah Coleman celebrate their belated b'nai mitzvahs at Emanu-El. (Photo/Courtesy Lori Coleman)
Posted inLifecycles

At Emanu-El, pandemic b’nai mitzvah teens finally get to party like it’s 2019

by Dan Pine May 15, 2023May 16, 2023

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