Maia Elder-Kadar and her husband, Ofer, won’t be seeing their daughter, Yael, over Passover this year. “She said she misses us,” Elder-Kadar said. “She misses her friends.” Yael, 18, is one of a number of Bay Area Jews currently in the Israeli Defense Forces who is facing a Passover far from home this year because…
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U.S.
Bernie Sanders suspends his presidential campaign
Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator who became the first Jewish front-runner in a major party nomination race for president, is suspending his campaign.…
Bay Area
Mourners no longer allowed graveside at Sinai’s funerals due to Covid-19
Sinai Memorial Chapel, which coordinates Jewish burials all over Northern California, has tightened restrictions on who can attend funerals as an…
Bay Area
S.F. Campus for Jewish Living ready to accept Covid-19 patients, per state order
Updated on April 8 The San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living said it is now ready to accept Covid-19 patients after an order by the California Department…
Northern California
Doctor uses traumatic lessons from AIDS pandemic to fight coronavirus
When Berkeley-born physician Michelle Roland returned to the U.S. in 2019 after a stint abroad with the Centers for Disease Control, she thought she would…
Education
No graduation, no prom — tough times for Jewish high school seniors
If there ever was a good time to graduate high school, right now ain’t it. Graduation ceremonies have been postponed, proms are canceled and seniors who…
Obituaries
Rabbi Malcolm Sparer, a champion of many causes, dies at 93
When she was a child, if Shoshana Sparer Manning wanted a quick answer to a question, she’d ask her mother. If she had 30 minutes for a detailed…
Northern California
Lawsuit: judge called public defender ‘Jew boy,’ shoved him into Lake Shasta
A Jewish public defender in Humboldt County has filed a lawsuit alleging a judge verbally assaulted him during a camping trip, called him “Jew boy” and…
U.S.
Ramah in the Rockies averts layoffs with a federal grant
The staff at Ramah in the Rockies, a Jewish summer camp in Colorado, got a rare bit of good news on Tuesday: Just days after applying for a grant designed…