Bay Area
WATCH: Rabbi blesses new SF mayor
Rabbi Beth Singer, co-senior rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, offered a Hebrew blessing for the city’s newly elected Mayor London…
Jewish World
Back to the source: genealogy confab goes to Poland
Robinn Magid of Berkeley has attended a lot of international Jewish genealogy gatherings. “I’ve been to 20 out of the past 23 conferences,” she admitted.…
U.S.
How Supreme Court pick could affect the Jews
President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a Republican establishment favorite who has worked in the George W. Bush…
U.S.
For Jewish liberals, high (court) anxiety
Roberta Kaplan is best known for winning a landmark case before the Supreme Court that granted same-sex married couples federal recognition for the first…
Bay Area
Vallejo Jews urge Women’s March to purge anti-Semitism
In January 2017, a contingent of Vallejo Jews fell in with the Women’s March, which drew millions of protesters in cities across the country and the…
Social Justice
Hundreds of Jewish orgs sign Spanish ad blasting immigration policies
The Jewish social action nonprofit Bend the Arc ran a full-page ad in the July 2 edition of the national Spanish-language newspaper La Opinión, condemning…
Bay Area
Fire support groups starting in North Bay
The Santa Rosa office of S.F.-based Jewish Family and Children’s Services is launching two new initiatives this month, one a support group and the other a…
News
‘Moral emergency’: Bay Area Jews join nationwide immigration protests
From Berkeley to San Francisco to San Diego, Bay Area Jews this past week joined hundreds of thousands of demonstrators at more than 700 rallies across…
Synagogues
Beth Sholom’s new rabbi brings fresh traditions
Dan Ain was studying to become a lawyer and working on a movie set in New York City when the 2001 terrorist attacks brought down the World Trade Center…