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Asaf Elia-Shalev
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Meet J.’s new editor in chief: Award-winning journalist Asaf Elia-Shalev

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky June 4, 2026June 5, 2026

J. The Jewish News of Northern California has hired a new editor in chief: award-winning journalist Asaf Elia-Shalev. Elia-Shalev, an Israeli American, comes to J. after five years at the […]

This photo of the post-earthquake ruins of Temple Emanu-El's original building appeared on the cover of our Sept. 21, 1906 issue.
Posted inFrom the Archives

A trip through 13 decades of this paper’s archives, and a happy 130th to us

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 21, 2025November 21, 2025
Netzach Educational Network President Rabbi Menachem Bombach (left) talks to philanthropist Moses Libitzky (right) at the Z3 Conference at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, Nov. 9, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Israeli panelists at Z3: To fix a fractured society, just show up

by Sue Fishkoff November 10, 2025November 10, 2025
Telegrams were a big part of Jewish holiday observance in 1933. (J. Archives)
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Not so long ago, Jews absolutely loved to send telegrams

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 28, 2025May 28, 2025
Oakland Unified School District teacher Joshua Diamant at a press conference where parents, teachers and Jewish leaders expressed their distress at a statement by the teachers' union they deemed antisemitic, Nov. 2023. (Photo/Dan Ancona)
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J. wins seven American Jewish Press Association Awards for work on education, addiction and more

by J. Staff June 3, 2024June 7, 2024
Marc Klein in the Jewish Bulletin newsroom in 1994 with (from left) Sue Barnett, Taryn Thomas and Leslie Katz.
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Marc Klein, former editor who led J. into the digital age, dies at 75

by Dan Pine May 28, 2024May 31, 2024
J. board member Samantha Grant hard at work. (Photo/Martin Burt)
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Meet four accomplished Jewish leaders who are joining our board

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss June 30, 2023July 3, 2023
Theodor Herzl, father of modern political Zionism. (Photo/JTA-GPO via Getty Images)
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What did Bay Area Jews make of Theodor Herzl in the 1890s?

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 30, 2023
the cover says "EMANU-EL" in large letters and features an old photo of a man with a beard
Posted inFrom the Archives

‘All hail!’ 127 years ago today, this newspaper’s first issue

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 22, 2022November 22, 2022
Jo Ellen Green Kaiser is J.'s new CEO, effective Oct. 17, 2022.
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J. hires Jo Ellen Green Kaiser as first-ever CEO to oversee expansion

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 11, 2022October 12, 2022

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