For the past 18 years, Sam Schuchat, 59, has been the executive director of the California State Coastal Conservancy, a nonregulatory agency charged with protecting and maintaining more than 800 miles of coastline through watershed, waterway, wetlands and wildlife projects — measures that help stabilize the ecosystem and guard against flooding and climate change. Schuchat…
Read More
News
Israel
4 rockets fired from Syria on northern Israel
Four rockets were fired early Tuesday at Israel from Syria by Iran or on its orders, the Israeli military said. The attacks come one day after the Israel…
Bay Area
Bay Area Rabbi to lead tour of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland
Calling all Litvaks! Rabbi Art Cartun, rabbi emeritus at Congregation Etz Chayim in Palo Alto, will be leading a summer tour of Lithuania and Latvia — the…
Israel
Gantz and Netanyahu to make 11th-hour attempt to form government
With a third election looming in less than a year, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are taking a final shot at…
California
California Dems vote down ‘highly flawed anti-Israel’ amendment to party platform
California Democrats voted down an amendment to their party platform that called for the right of return for Palestinians and eliminated references to the…
U.S.
U.S. no longer considers Israel's West Bank settlements illegal
The Trump administration will no longer regard West Bank Jewish settlements as illegal, another dramatic change that aligns it with Israel’s right-wing…
Bay Area
S.F. Jewish couple arrested for protesting gun violence in Sept. isn’t done fighting
It was business as usual in the U.S. Senate chamber on Sept. 10. Senators had just returned from their August recess and were voting on midlevel…
Israel
Palestinian photographer loses sight in eye hit by Israeli bullet
A Palestinian photographer has lost his sight in one eye after he was hit in the eye with a bullet fired by an Israeli border policeman. Muad Amarna was…
Bay Area
UC Berkeley Chabad set to expand — upstairs
Chabad of UC Berkeley is expanding — upstairs. Right now, the popular campus center, run by Rabbi Gil Leeds and Rebbetzin Bracha Leeds, hosts services in…