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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Small Bites
Katz Bagels closing next month after 27 years
Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Katz Bagels on 16th Street in San Francisco is closing after 27 years,…
Organic Epicure
L’Chaim kosher sushi on a new roll with change of ownership
Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. While the kosher scene in the Bay Area has never been all that robust,…
Film
‘Incitement’ revisits dark days around Rabin’s assassination
Over the past century, Jews have endured what filmmaker Yaron Zilberman calls a trilogy of traumas: the Holocaust, the Yom Kippur War and the…
Bay Area
Indigenous rights activists take issue with CJM’s Levi Strauss exhibit
It was opening night for the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s new exhibition, “Levi Strauss: A History of American Style,” celebrating the Jewish icon who…
Organic Epicure
Eastern European comfort food comes to the Mission, by way of chef’s ‘oma’
Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. One of chef David Golovin’s most formative food memories is going to his…
Film
A master of synagogue music finds his style and career fading
Cantor Jack Mendelson’s style — the operatic hazzanut (classical European Jewish liturgical music), which enjoyed a golden age in early and mid-20th…
Honoring the Survivors
S.F. man, 88, recalls a ‘nightmare’ at every turn
Part of a year-long series on Holocaust survivors and partisans in Northern California Leon Rajninger lost much of his childhood in the Holocaust. Life in…
Art
Reinstallation ceremony set for restored S.F. Holocaust memorial
A public viewing of the famed Holocaust sculpture by George Segal at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor will take place on Feb. 22 after a $65,000 four-month…