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Sue Barnett 2025

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Sue Barnett was managing editor of J. She can be reached at [email protected].

Winifred S. Davis on her daughter’s farm. She will become a bat mitzvah on May 2. (Courtesy)
Posted inLifecycles

She’s in her 90s — and she’s about to have her bat mitzvah

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett April 30, 2026April 30, 2026

Winifred S. Davis will become a bat mitzvah at Temple Beth Hillel in Richmond on Saturday. Then, in August, she will turn 95. “I just decided last September that I […]

Sue Barnett in Tel Aviv in January of 1991, shortly after the start of the Gulf War. Her shirt has a caricature of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and reads "I survived Jan. 15 in Israel."
Posted inFirst Person

I’m retiring after 22 years as a J. editor, and I’m ready to tell the story

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett April 30, 2026April 30, 2026
Sarah Silverman
Posted inComedy

Sarah Silverman charms crowd as JCCSF opens $2.5M renovated Kanbar Hall

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett March 25, 2026March 25, 2026
Tad Taube (Courtesy)
Posted inObituaries

Tad Taube, donor to causes from Bay Area to Poland, dies at 94

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett September 13, 2025September 18, 2025
Gracie Lawrence performing at the BottleRock music festival in Napa on May 24, 2025. (Courtesy BottleRock/K. Gladstein)
Posted inMusic

I didn’t get the interview — but here’s the story anyway

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett June 12, 2025June 12, 2025
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
Mary Ann Salinas holds up two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, Dec. 21, 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inFrom the Archives

‘Don’t kiss the mezuzah’ and other sage advice from the early days of the Covid pandemic

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett March 17, 2025March 21, 2025
Amit Elor is the youngest-ever wrestler on Team USA to win Olympic gold. (Courtesy Amit Elor)
Posted inSports

Behind the scenes with wrestler Amit Elor, newly minted Olympic gold medalist

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett September 5, 2024January 19, 2025
Attendees at the Friends of the IDF fundraiser at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, Nov. 5, 2023. (Photo/Limor Edrey-Courtesy FIDF)
Posted inBay Area

Friends of the IDF fundraiser disrupted by raucous protest on Peninsula

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett November 11, 2023November 12, 2023
Israel solidarity and 'Bring Them Home' rally in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens, Oct. 29, 2023. (Photo/Rebecca Goodman-JCRC)
Posted inBay Area

Huge turnout at ‘Bring Them Home’ solidarity rally in S.F.

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett October 31, 2023October 31, 2023

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