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2019 Rockower Award-winning stories

Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai, 1949. Second from left: fashion designer Ilie Wacs, who later cowrote a book about the Shanghai Jews. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ilie Wacs)
Posted inHistory

The last of the Shanghailanders, S.F.’s unique Holocaust refugee community

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 14, 2018June 26, 2019

Sixteen years ago, there were enough of them still living to hold a reunion 100 strong in San Francisco. But nowadays, there are fewer and fewer people around who were […]

David Pilosof (left) and Ariel Goldstein cheer on the Uruguayan World Cup team (Photo/Laura Paull)
Posted inSports

Bay Area Uruguayan Jews (who knew?!) look for World Cup win

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 2, 2018June 26, 2019
The Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews held daily vigils in front of the Soviet Consulate, like this one in Nov. 1986, to protest the USSR policies that made it difficult for Jews to leave Russia. (Photos/Tom Wachs)
Posted inLocal Voice

You know who else separated families trying to cross borders? The Soviets.

by David Waksberg June 29, 2018June 26, 2019
Neshama Carlebach singing at an event about her relationship with her father Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, June 12, 2018 (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

Neshama Carlebach speaks about her famed father’s legacy of sexual abuse

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 14, 2018June 26, 2019
Nayfeld with arms crossed, standing in his kitchen
Posted inOrganic Epicure

At SF’s hot new Che Fico, Italian Jewish food is a political statement

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 5, 2018June 26, 2019
Visitors looking at Janis Joplin’s clothing in the exhibition "Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution" at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in 2018
(File/Andria Lo)
Posted inArt, Culture

CJM turns 10: Is it contemporary, Jewish or a museum?

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 31, 2018June 26, 2019
Congressman Julius Kahn is now remembered in part for his vociferous anti-Asian racism.
Posted inNews

Name of anti-Chinese SF Jew may be stripped from playground

by Joe Eskenazi May 4, 2018June 26, 2019
At an empty lot in the former fire zone, new green growth mixes with charred remains of trees, April 2018. (Photo/Rob Gloster)
Posted inNews

‘People are still suffering’: the North Bay fires, six months later

Shoshana Hebshi by Shoshana Hebshi April 19, 2018June 26, 2019
Yoav Potash (top, in the 75 t-shirt) in Israel for the first time in 1979 with his brothers and cousins
Posted inIsrael at 70

How I learned all Israelis are not my father

Yoav Potash by Yoav Potash April 5, 2018June 26, 2019
James A. White aka "Sneaky," a life-sentence prisoner working to get education for fellow inmates
Posted inJewish Life

Sentenced to life for murder, he has helped 1,500 fellow inmates earn degrees

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 22, 2018June 26, 2019

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