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Shopkeeper Harry Diller stands inside Diller’s Kosher Restaurant in San Francisco's Fillmore District around 1940. (The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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Jewish Fillmore back in the spotlight as S.F. seeks to undo ’60s ‘urban renewal’

by Dan Pine April 6, 2026April 10, 2026

While many pockets in San Francisco retain their Victorian charms, one area decidedly does not: the seven-block section of Geary Boulevard between Laguna and Divisadero streets. Wider than a highway […]

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Passover recalls San Francisco’s brush with neo-Nazis in 1977

Morgan Blum Schneider, the director of the JFCS Holocaust Center, a program of Jewish Family
and Children’s Services. (Courtesy) by Morgan Blum Schneider April 1, 2026April 1, 2026
Congregation Sherith Israel's sanctuary glows in warm light. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Sherith Israel, a fixture of San Francisco history, is marking 175 years

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On the front steps of the original House of Love and Prayer at 347 Arguello Blvd., ca 1969. (Photo/Marvin Kussoy- Courtesy Yehudit and Reuven Goldfarb)
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‘Mapping Jewish San Francisco’: USF exhibit is a visual treasure trove of local history

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 9, 2022November 10, 2022
Author Emma Wolf's novel "Heirs of Yesterday" is in print once more with a new edition.
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Early S.F. author Emma Wolf, ‘mother of American Jewish fiction,’ gets a new reprint 120 years later

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Time-tripping through San Francisco’s Jewish story

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