Alexander Anolik of Marin County, California, a pioneering attorney and deeply devoted family man, passed away on July 31, 2026 at the age of 87, leaving behind a legacy marked by generosity, humor, ...

Here’s what our readers are saying in this week’s letters to the editor in chief of J. The Jewish News of Northern California ...

Teens from Contra Costa spoke to senior citizen Burt Feldstein about his life, his feelings about Judaism and his commitment ...

A program in the North Bay has been bringing together Jews with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their ...

A Berkeley man has been convicted of arson for burning the mezuzah on the entrance to the Berkeley Hillel building.

Two new polls find Connie Chan closely trailing Scott Wiener in the race to replace retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

A former mortuary will be the new home for Chabad of Noe Valley's preschool, a new K-5 school, kitchen and worship and ...

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

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

Raised Chabad and ordained Conservative, Rishe Groner is the newest rabbi at the Berkeley Renewal congregation Chochmat HaLev ...

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 ...