San Francisco State University President Leslie Wong, who has faced criticism of his administration’s response to anti-Semitic incidents at the school over the last years, has announced he is retiring. Wong, president since 2012, was traveling and unavailable to talk to J., but other figures connected to the university offered comments. “It’s been a challenging…
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Religion
Bay Area synagogues start to head back inside
“It was a High Holidays atmosphere,” said Rabbi Mark Bloom, describing the first indoor event at his synagogue in more than a year. “The joy of just being…
Bay Area
Senior homes reopen for visits after lonely year
Just over a year ago, Susan Grossman Cohen moved her 99-year-old mother, Abby, into the Reutlinger Community in Danville. It was a big day in more ways…
Small Bites
Solomon’s Deli does drag; Schlok’s Bagels goes brick-and-mortar; etc.
Schlok’s Bagels, a pandemic-born pop-up available weekends at the Snug eatery in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights, announced on Instagram that its life as…
Meryl Bennan
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History
Fifty years ago, a radical Jewish sit-in brought the S.F. Federation to a halt
They brought songbooks, prayerbooks, sleeping bags and Shabbat dinner. But this was no sleepover party. The university students who entered the San…
Education
Facing litigation, S.F. school board rescinds renaming plan
Faced with a lawsuit and an unfavorable ruling from a Superior Court judge, the San Francisco school board voted on Tuesday to rescind a controversial…
Local Voice
Yom HaShoah and the strength of our ‘Wonder Women’
The 2017 film “Wonder Woman” opens with a flashback: Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) receives an old black-and-white photograph in which she is posing with her…
Art
Matzah ‘NFT’ digital art fetches $4,200 in charity auction
How much is an afikomen worth? How about $4,200? That’s what a digital artwork by the Jewish San Francisco artist fnnch (pronounced “finch”) went for at a…