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Rally Rabbi

Members of Or Shalom Jewish Community at San Francisco Giants Jewish Heritage Night on Aug. 17, 2022. (Photo/Liz Isaacs)
Posted inSports

For years, the S.F. Giants have scored big with fans who love their Jewish merch

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene September 12, 2022September 13, 2022

An orange and black menorah. A bobblehead of Lou Seal, the pinniped mascot, wearing a kippah and tallit. And perhaps most famously, the “Rally Rabbi,” Rabbi Yosef Langer, blowing a […]

Gail Simon remembers these chairs from her childhood at the original Webster Street location of Keneseth Israel. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
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Is your living room the next stop for these historic S.F. synagogue chairs?

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky July 11, 2022July 12, 2022
A man with a long beard, black hat and cableknit sweater stands on the deck of a yacht with a "Rally Rabbi" sign behind him
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S.F. Giants’ first home game blessed by seafaring ‘Rally Rabbi’

by Gabriel Greschler July 29, 2020July 30, 2020
Rabbi Yosef Langer of Chabad at Sea wants to buy a boat — this boat. (Photo/Courtesy Five Star Yachts)
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Chabad at Sea? SF’s ‘Rally Rabbi’ is hoping his ship comes in

by Dan Pine May 7, 2020May 11, 2020

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