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Gold Rush

Sasha Velour in "The Big Reveal Live Show!" (Greg Endries)
Posted inLetters

Drag queen led us to family. A Stockton salute. The price we pay.

by J. Readers July 1, 2025July 1, 2025

Drag queen story led us to family  On May 21, J. ran a story about drag queen Sasha Velour’s Berkeley performance debut (“Jewish drag superstar ready to sashay into Bay […]

Temple Israel has occupied a variety of buildings over the years, including this one on Hunter Street, seen here in 1905. (Courtesy Western States Jewish History Association)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Gold drew Jews to Stockton. Community kept them there.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 6, 2025June 6, 2025
dancers outdoors
Posted inNorthern California

Stockton’s Gold Rush-era congregation shines after 175 years

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi June 3, 2025June 6, 2025
Graves visible through the flowers in one corner of the Jackson Pioneer Jewish Cemetery on May 18, 2025. (Laura Paull)
Posted inHistory

In this Jewish cemetery, another Gold Rush story unfolds

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 28, 2025May 29, 2025
The defaced plaque at Hirschman's Pond in Nevada County. (Screenshot/CBS Sacramento)
Posted inNorthern California

Plaque honoring Jewish contribution to Gold Rush vandalized

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene July 29, 2022August 1, 2022
An obituary for Lewis Emanuel in our July 24, 1896 edition.
Posted inLocal Voice

For an ol’ prospector of Jewish genealogy, J.’s new archives are a gold mine

Jeremy Frankel by Jeremy Frankel March 14, 2022
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
The "Little Shul," located behind the main building of Temple Beth Sholom in San Leandro, seen here ca. 1940, is one of many Jewish treasures travelers can visit on a trip to Gold Country. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inHistory

A road trip through Jewish Gold Country

by Gabriel Greschler November 25, 2020December 8, 2020
German immigrant Edward Kusel opened photo galleries and variety shops in California’s Central Valley. (Photo/Courtesy Arcadia Publishing)
Posted inBooks

New book tells Jewish stories of the Gold Rush

by Liz Harris May 21, 2020July 8, 2020
the plaque reads: "established in approximately 1851 by the Hebrew Congregation of Sonora, later known as the Sonora and Columbia Hebrew Benevolent Society; this was the first Jewish cemetery in the Gold Rush region."
Posted inJewish Life

Gold Rush-era Jewish cemetery cleanup with Mother Lode Jewish Community

by J. Staff May 1, 2017

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