Marco Sermoneta wraps up his four-year post as consul general to the Pacific Northwest. Several local Jewish leaders reflect on his tenure.

Until a few years ago, every book math teacher Dahlia Evans had read about Jews was Holocaust historical fiction. Searching for a change, she went to her rabbi, who recommended a romance called The ...

A Walnut Creek resident has translated the autobiographical novel of a renowned Yiddish writer raised amid hardship in a ...

The Torah is unchanging, even as we grow and change. Each time we return to the Torah, it can yield something new.

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. (JTA) — Most people spend their later ...

The rabbinate doesn’t have one look, and Reform Rabbi Arielle Stein’s version is chic, creative and fashion-forward. Stein, ...

A new production reimagines the classic tale of the golem through large-scale puppetry, live klezmer and unapologetic ...

As a new documentary about Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach’s legacy debuts, J. looks back at how our publication covered him over the ...

A former S.F. man was arrested in Israel and extradited back to the U.S. to face charges in a 2017 fatal hit and run in South ...

As Germany considers an unprecedented law that would criminalize denying Israel’s right to exist, American free speech ...

The NYC mayor says he’s still thinking about whether he should arrest Netanyahu the next time he's in town. Nope, Trump says.

Marc Usatin, a career neonatologist/pediatrician and founding president of Congregation B’nai Tikvah in Walnut Creek, died on July 4, 2026 at his home in Davis, surrounded by his devoted family. Marc ...