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A rally for SB 567 on March 10, 2023. (Photo/Courtesy LA Voice)
Posted inLocal Voice

Home is sacred. California must pass stronger tenant protections.

Rabbi Jocee Hudson (Photo/Courtesy LA Voice) by Rabbi Jocee Hudson April 19, 2023

My dad grew up with no electricity or indoor plumbing in Kansas. He moved to California in 1957, looking for work and a better life. My mom’s family moved from […]

R. Elysa Gurman spoke up in support of a housing proposal for unhoused people in her area of Santa Clara at a community meeting, March 1, 2023. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inLocal Voice

Housing the unhoused: If not now, when? And if not in your neighborhood, where?

R. Elysa Gurman by R. Elysa Gurman March 17, 2023March 17, 2023
Rabbi Jeremy Sher leads the Open Shabbat service at the 16th Street BART station in San Francisco. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inBay Area

‘Open Shabbat’ welcomes the Sabbath with San Francisco’s unhoused

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman July 25, 2022November 11, 2023
Tents are seen along "Skid Row" in downtown Los Angeles, July 8, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Flickr Commons-Russ Allison Loar)
Posted inUncategorized

Why my L.A. synagogue is building a 55-unit housing development for unhoused seniors

Brooke Wirtschafter by Brooke Wirtschafter and JTA March 25, 2022March 28, 2022
Garbage and abandoned shopping carts litter the underpass under I-80 in Emeryville, where homeless people often sleep, Nov. 21, 2021.(Photo/Fran Quittel)
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She contacted Caltrans 75 times to clean up a dirty I-80 off-ramp

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 23, 2021November 24, 2021
Attendees at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting hold up signs while waiting to see President Donald Trump speak, April 6, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Ethan Miller-Getty Images)
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Unfair pay in Jewish orgs; Homelessness is not ‘unsolvable’; GOP Jews and Trump; etc.

by J. Readers November 22, 2021
Outside the SOMA Chabad, Oct. 25 2021. (Photo/Rabbi Moshe Langer)
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A homeless encampment crowded an S.F. synagogue. Its removal came with remorse.

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 16, 2021November 17, 2021
(Photo/Forward-Montinique Monroe-Getty)
Posted inOpinion

Spending time with unhoused people challenged everything I knew about Sukkot

Hannah Lebovits by Hannah Lebovits and Forward September 24, 2021September 24, 2021
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Posted inLocal Voice

Mental health during Covid: Be of service and get a ‘helper’s high’

Zoe Stricker by Zoe Stricker May 21, 2021
Muslim volunteers assemble snack and hygiene packs at Masjid-e-Mohammedi in Fremont, part of a day of cooperation between the mosque and Temple Beth Torah, May 2021. (Photo/Mufaddal Ezzy)
Posted inBay Area

Muslims and Jews team up to help unhoused in Fremont

Rachele Kanigel by Rachele Kanigel May 19, 2021May 25, 2021

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