Religion
Orthodox Jews find creative workarounds for b’nai mitzvahs
During the coronavirus pandemic, many bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies in the Bay Area and around the globe are being streamed online, while others have…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of April 17, 2020
Weddings Mazel tov to Steven Michael Eliscu and Roxanne Alicia Woodward, who were married on Feb. 29 at Congregation Torat-El in Ocean Township, New…
Seniors
Woman Zooms to 100 with virtual birthday party
Miriam Groman was supposed to have a party. The Los Angeles resident was turning 100 and a big family celebration was planned. She was even planning to…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of April 3, 2020
Sari Bourne Kaplan and Matt Kaplan of San Francisco welcomed a baby girl, Mackenzie Arielle Kaplan, on March 18 (chai!), 2020. Mackenzie was born in San…
Religion
Coronavirus forces b’nai mitzvah ceremonies online
“It was a little different. It was weird,” 13-year-old Reuben Friedman said of his March 19 bar mitzvah in San Francisco. He did his Torah reading from a…
Community
A ‘match made in newsprint,’ 20 years later
Twenty years ago, on erev Valentine’s Day (Feb. 13, 2000), each guest at a wedding at Temple Israel in Alameda received a mock Jewish Bulletin (this…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of March 6, 2020
Births Melissa and Jeff Blum of Brooklyn welcomed a daughter, Lucy Rae, born Dec. 16, 2019 at the Southampton Hospital in New York. Lucy weighed 7 lbs. 8…
Seniors
North Bay climate activist becomes a bat mitzvah at 80
Tish Levee moved to Northern California in 1977 as part of her plan to become an Episcopal minister. But it didn’t really work out that way for the now…
Lifecycles
Lifecycles for the week of Feb. 21, 2020
Birth With great joy, Ted and Cantor Amanda Edmondson welcomed our son, Jonas William Edmondson, into the covenant of the Jewish people. He has been given…