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Congregants raise glasses of sparkling wine
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Petaluma congregation celebrates 100 years of Jewish life in one building

Aaron Levy-Wolins by Aaron Levy-Wolins August 18, 2025February 5, 2026

Benamy Yashar learned how to braid his daughter’s hair in a most Jewish way: by braiding loaves of challah in the kitchen of Petaluma’s B’nai Israel Jewish Center many years […]

Scribe Kevin Hale restores Torahs with the Memorial Scrolls Trust. (Photo/Commandment 613)
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This 271-year-old Torah survived the Holocaust. Now it’s headed for a new home in Petaluma.

by Eliyahu Kamisher November 29, 2021
Sonoma County Sheriff personnel on Jan. 4 near Blind Beach, where Michael Wyman drowned trying to save his two children. (Photo/Twitter-San Mateo County Sheriff's Office)
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Jewish father drowns on Sonoma coast trying to save two young children, who remain missing

by Dan Pine January 5, 2021January 7, 2021
and old woman sits smiling on a park bench with a small black and white dog on her lap
Posted inJewish Life, Seniors

Meet this 90-something social butterfly and former chicken farmer

Shoshana Hebshi by Shoshana Hebshi June 19, 2017

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