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Boris Fudym (right), owner of New World Market in San Francisco, expounds upon a plate of cured meats as Bex Michelson looks on, May, 18, 2025. (Alix Wall)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

San Francisco’s ‘Little Russia’ draws adventurous foodies

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 5, 2025June 19, 2025

Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. When Bex Michelson was growing up in San Francisco’s Richmond District, she and her family would frequent many […]

Sasha Velour in "The Big Reveal Live Show!" (Greg Endries)
Posted inOn Stage

Jewish drag superstar ready to sashay into Bay Area for her ‘Big Reveal’

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett May 21, 2025June 6, 2025
Alina Sivorinovsky, who writes under the pen name Alina Adams, is the author of "My Mother's Secret," which is set in Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region.
Posted inBooks

Eat, Pray, Oy Vey: Decision to pull Elizabeth Gilbert’s Russia-set book worries Jewish writers

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 16, 2023June 19, 2023
The sign reads "Birobidzhan" in Russian and Yiddish. (Photo/Wikimedia-Rusik_z CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inJewish Life

History of Jewish homelands harbors a strange chapter: Birobidzhan

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 8, 2023
Rabbi Bentziyon Pil founded and runs the Schneerson Center, a synagogue that serves primarily Russian-speaking Jews in San Francisco. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inNews

‘We thought we were safe’: Fallout from Schneerson Center gun scare

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman February 16, 2023March 28, 2024
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (right) and Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar attend a ceremony marking the handover of items in the Schneerson library to a Chabad-run museum in Moscow, June 13, 2013. (Photo/JTA-Yuri Kadobnov-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

Russia’s Jews are caught in the messy politics of Putin’s war

by Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt and Forward February 15, 2023February 15, 2023
Luda Shuster's parents in the Soviet Union, ca. 1950
Posted inOpinion

A lifetime of anti-Jewish propaganda — from Stalinist Russia to Kanye West

Luda Shuster by Luda Shuster February 7, 2023February 7, 2023
Dmitri Mishin
Posted inBay Area

Disturbing Twitter account hints at motive of Schneerson Center shooter

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman February 6, 2023March 8, 2023
Posted inBooks

Q&A: Raising kids in two worlds and two languages, without a map

by Sue Fishkoff January 12, 2023January 12, 2023
Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar delivers a speech during an emergency gathering of rabbis in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 5, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia)
Posted inWorld

In rare rebuke, Russian chief rabbi accuses senior defense official of antisemitism

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA October 26, 2022

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