Summer Camp
20 years of camp for queer families
The first year, only 15 families came. This year, 75 families showed up, and they had something special to celebrate: the 20th anniversary of Camp Keshet,…
Bay Area
Wilderness Torah, now with an actual Torah
Endings can also mean beginnings. That is certainly true for one particular Torah scroll that has just been passed down from a shuttered synagogue in San…
Education
Pot entrepreneurs and more at JCHS
Given that high school is generally the time kids first experiment with smoking pot, it’s not every day that a high school invites two of its alumni back…
Bay Area
NIF scrutinizes travel ban on Israel’s critics
Jennifer Spitzer has spent much of her career supporting foundations and projects in Israel, as chief executive of the S.F.-based Jewish Community…
Jewish World
Why Uganda's chief rabbi wants to be president
At his bar mitzvah in 1983, his father and grandfather laid their hands on his head and proclaimed him the rabbi of their village in Uganda. Today, Rabbi…
Education
Jewish high school adds 'salaam' to its vocabulary
Updated: 12:34 p.m., September 5, 2018 Hebrew is no longer the only Semitic language being taught at Jewish Community High School of the Bay. Now students…
Bay Area
Rescued from war-torn Yemen via social media
Updated: 12:33, August 28, 2018 Three years after helping rescue fellow interfaith activist Mohammed Al Samawi from war-torn Yemen, Justin Hefter realizes…
Music
Cantor takes center bimah as synagogue’s ‘rebbe’
As Linda Hirschhorn stands on the bimah at Temple Beth Sholom in San Leandro, she sometimes flashes back to being relegated to the balcony of her father’s…
Bay Area
Tri-Valley Chabad, neighbors ready to end dispute?
After months of wrangling, a resolution might be in sight for a backyard-fence feud in Pleasanton between new property owners Chabad of the Tri-Valley and…