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Elissa Einhorn

Elissa Einhorn

Elissa Einhorn began her writing career in the Bronx at the age of 8. She earned a master’s degree in communications and journalism 20 years later. While Elissa worked for non-profits her entire career, including as a Jewish communal professional, she now enjoys working for herself as a freelance writer. Still, her most treasured role is that of ima (mom) to twin daughters who she is (finally) happy to count among her friends.

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Posted inTV & Film

Documentary tells story of Sacramento couple’s forbidden gay military romance

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn September 16, 2020September 17, 2020

In 1989, one question forever altered the lives of two career military nurses, led to the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and unleashed political activism rooted in […]

Rabbi Reuven Taff teaches a Mosaic Law Congregation class for 10th-graders over Zoom on May 26, 2020. (Photo/Andrew Nixon-Capital Public Radio)
Posted inUncategorized

Much-loved Sacramento rabbi retires after 25 years

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn July 10, 2020July 12, 2020
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Posted inJewish Life

After wrestling with food issues, she now teaches kids healthy cooking

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn July 8, 2020
Restaurateur Bobby Coyote has been recognized for his contributions to Sacramento-area communities.
Posted inJewish Life

Meet Bobby Coyote, the Southwestern food king of Sacramento

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn June 22, 2020June 22, 2020
Ma'avarim demonstration in Tel Aviv to protest stabbing of an Israeli Arab trans woman, 2018.
Posted inPhilanthropy

New Jewish Pride Fund grants give agencies hope

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn June 18, 2020June 19, 2020
Assembly member Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (left), Assembly member Jesse Gabriel (front, second from left), Gov. Gavin Newsom (center, seated) and others at signing for AB 1548 nonprofit security grant bill in Sacramento on Oct. 11, 2019. (Photo/Courtesy Assembly member Gabriel's Office)
Posted inCalifornia

State bill would provide training to better identify hate crimes

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn June 2, 2020June 2, 2020
Zack Bodner, CEO of Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, made the difficult decision to close his organization's facility in March. (Photo/Courtesy OFJCC)
Posted inBay Area

How local Jewish community leaders are navigating the unknown

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn April 23, 2020April 24, 2020
An Easter ad that employed anti-Semitic tropes appeared in the Sacramento Bee newspaper on April 10 and 12.
Posted inNorthern California

Sacramento newspaper apologizes for anti-Semitic Easter ad

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn April 15, 2020
Rio American High School Principal Brian Ginter addresses parents at a meeting prompted by frustration over how he handled an incident in which a swastika was marked into dirt on the school's athletic field. (ELISSA EINHORN)
Posted inNorthern California

Sacramento high school’s response to swastika incident prompts frustration, community meeting

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn March 12, 2020March 19, 2020
Historian Jennifer Craig-Norton is the author "The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory." (inset courtesy Jennifer Craig Norton; background from book cover)
Posted inHistory

This historian draws lessons about family separation at U.S.-Mexico border from Kindertransport artifacts

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn February 26, 2020

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