Bay Area
Berkeley mayor objects to Bazian appointment
Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin is not pleased with the appointment of controversial UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian to the city’s Peace and Justice…
Diversity
Making space for teen Jews of color
The 16 students — black, Asian and Latino, and all Jewish — stood in a circle at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. When asked whether they’ve ever been told…
Sports
Historic wins for JCHS in soccer and volleyball
The boys soccer team at Jewish Community High School of the Bay is on its way to the championship game in its division for the first time, matching the…
Israel
Activist rabbi warns of theocracy in Israel
Rabbi Uri Regev next week will be asking Bay Area Jews to imagine what it would be like if a small group of extreme Jewish fundamentalists tried to set up…
Philanthropy
Honoring John Goldman: a philanthropist who lets the youth lead
John Goldman, this year’s recipient of the Robert Sinton Award for Distinguished Leadership, recalls words his mother, the late Rhoda Goldman, spoke to…
Bay Area
Beth Torah helps families hurt by fire
When the massive Carr Fire broke out near Redding this past summer, volunteers at Reform synagogue Temple Beth Torah in Fremont wanted to help out. But…
Bay Area
Protesters sit shiva, block street at S.F. ICE
Several dozen young Jews on Monday blocked the street in front of the San Francisco office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sitting shiva for the…
Bay Area
On first Shabbat since shooting, big crowds of Bay Area Jews and allies
They showed up. In the wake of the murder of 11 Jews at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, a nationwide call went out last week to “Show up for…
Science
Israel headed for the moon?
The 150 or so audience members who came to the Addison-Penzak JCC in Los Gatos on Oct. 30 Tuesday night to hear about Israel’s first lunar spacecraft are…