Bay Area
Panel to help ease BRCA cancer fears with the facts
Jen Brand had her first mammogram 10 years ago, when she was 35. Its findings were suspicious, so she was advised to return for a breast MRI six months…
Bay Area
Across the Bay Area, Jews and Muslims gather to honor New Zealand victims
The prayers were in Arabic, Hebrew and English, but the sorrow felt in the wake of last Friday’s massacre of 50 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch, New…
Bay Area
Limmud Bay Area 2019 registration open
One of the Bay Area’s most eclectic annual Jewish festivals is open for registration starting March 15. The 2019 Limmud Bay Area, a weekend of learning…
Bay Area
Marin Jewish campus expansion slowed by neighbors’ concerns
The three institutions that make up the Lonee C. Hoytt campus in San Rafael — the Osher Marin JCC, Congregation Rodef Sholom and Brandeis Marin — have…
Bay Area
Bay Area Jews show up for Muslim neighbors — how you can help
Around the world, Jewish communities are denouncing today’s shootings at two mosques in New Zealand, which claimed 49 lives. In the Bay Area, the Jewish…
Bay Area
It’s official: This Berkeley rabbi’s home is a ‘place of belonging’
Rabbi Yonatan Cohen of Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley had never heard of artist Christine Wong Yap’s Bay Area art project. He certainly didn’t know…
Bay Area
Airbnb case could set BDS precedent — one way or the other
A longtime critic of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement says Airbnb’s decision to remove about 200 rental property listings in…
Education
New class on U.S. Jewish radicals of the 20th century
They may not be household names, but if Elaine Leeder has any say, then Pauline Newman, Rose Pesotta, Rose Schneiderman, Clara Lemlich and Fannia Cohn…
Bay Area
Personal stories and ways forward in frank conversation on abortion
“Torah study cannot be divorced from people’s everyday concerns,” said David Waksberg, by way of explaining why the organization he leads, Jewish…