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Posted inReaders' Choice 2025

Shop ’Till You Drop: Judaica Store – Readers’ Choice 2025

by J. Staff November 13, 2025December 4, 2025

< Go back to Readers’ Choice 2025 Listings SAN FRANCISCO Dayenu Gifts and Books  (now closed)JCC of San Francisco(415) 563-6563 • dayenu.comFor 21 years, Dayenu’s shelves and displays held ritual […]

Collector Boris Gorbis
Posted inJudaica

Inside one man’s quixotic quest to preserve 200,000 Israeli tchotchkes

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev August 7, 2025August 7, 2025
These 20-sided dreidels created by David Zvi Kalman will become more expensive to import under the Trump administration's tariffs. (Courtesy Kalman)
Posted inFirst Person

I run a small Judaica business. Trump’s tariffs are going to squelch Jewish innovation.

David Zvi Kalman by David Zvi Kalman April 9, 2025April 9, 2025
An ornately embroidered bag with a handle and some red Hebrew text
Posted inJudaica

Magnes exhibit on Jewish lives in Muslim lands: ‘What the world needs right now’

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz August 26, 2024August 26, 2024
Rabbi Nosson Potash of Cole Valley Chabad fills a menorah made out of a Qassam rocket with candles as his 4-year-old son Shimon looks on. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inReligion

S.F. Chabad rabbi’s menorah turns a Qassam rocket into a beacon of peace

Natalie Weinstein in downtown San Francisco, Feb. 24, 2026. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Natalie Weinstein November 30, 2023December 4, 2023
Ruth Solomon (right) and Shirley Ginzburg have a little fun with some of the merchandise from the temple Judaica shop they've run together for decades.
Posted inBay Area

Helmed by two friends, this temple gift shop is one for the ages

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss December 20, 2022
Congregation Beth Sholom's distinctive building is reflected in the centennial mezuzah designed by Aimee Golant.
Posted inCulture

L’dor va-doorpost: Artist Aimee Golant honors Beth Sholom with centennial mezuzahs

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 30, 2022August 30, 2022
Nina Safdie's maamoul cookies are made from flour and semolina dough, with a walnut and honey filling, flavored with rosewater and cinnamon. (Photo/Alix Wall)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Sephardic cookies at L’Chaim food and wine fest; KQED goes for Jewish ice cream

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 18, 2022August 12, 2022
UC Hastings Jewish faculty and students commissioned San Francisco artist Abrasha to make a mezuzah for the second family. 
Posted inArt

UC Hastings to Kamala Harris: Where’s the mezuzah we sent you? 

by John Ferrannini December 15, 2021April 9, 2022
Volunteers Ronna Voorsanger (left) and Fanny Stein at the Rodef Sholom gift shop in San Rafael. (LIZ HARRIS)
Posted inPassover

With Passover approaching, temple gift shops pick up where now-closed Judaica stores left off

by Liz Harris March 26, 2020

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