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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Zvika Krieger stays busy, juggling his dual roles as an ethics adviser to AI giants in Silicon Valley and serving as a ...

Alexandra Harriet Winterman Diehl Daughter of Danya Winterman, Saturday, July 25, at Temple Sinai in Oakland.

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 ...

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 ...