U.S. ‘Simply a mensch’: Meet the rabbi who was taken hostage in Texas Over the course of a harrowing 12 hours on Saturday, the entire world found out just what the Jews of Colleyville, Texas, think of their hometown rabbi.… By Andrew Lapin, JTA Jan 16, 2022
U.S. Who is Aafia Siddiqui? The name Aafia Siddiqui became familiar to many on Saturday, when a man took a rabbi and his congregants hostage in a synagogue in Colleyville near Fort… By Asaf Shalev, JTA Jan 16, 2022
Bay Area SFPD to increase patrols at Jewish orgs after hostage incident San Francisco police will be more visible and increase patrols around Jewish institutions in the city in the wake of the hostage-taking event Jan. 15 at a… By JTA, J. Staff Jan 15, 2022
Tech Chabad is everywhere — even the metaverse You don your virtual reality goggles and stroll into a simulated, animated world of bright colors. In the person of your self-designed avatar, you range… By Maya Mirsky Jan 14, 2022
Bay Area Funds pour in to repair toppled Holocaust memorial in Santa Rosa Reacting to the vandalism of a Holocaust memorial in Santa Rosa last week, more than 310 people have donated to a Sonoma County man’s GoFundMe page, which… By Gabe Stutman Jan 13, 2022
Israel How planting trees in Israel became controversial Each year on Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish holiday celebrating trees and plants, Lior Weitz and his wife take their two daughters to plant saplings of… By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA Jan 13, 2022
Bay Area New California public health rules make it harder to visit nursing homes Citing the latest surge in Covid cases, California health officials on Jan. 7 implemented some of the most stringent rules yet for people visiting nursing… By Gabe Stutman Jan 13, 2022
U.S. Roadblocks ahead as activists push for Jewish fossil fuel divestment This piece first appeared in the Forward. When Beth Sirull took over the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego five years ago, she moved quickly to… By Arno Rosenfeld, Forward Jan 13, 2022
Bay Area Generations after their ancestor left Ukraine, long-lost family reconnects in US Anna Geisherik was looking for a needle in a haystack. The native of Ukraine, now living in New York, knew she had one relative who’d made it to the… By Maya Mirsky Jan 13, 2022