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S. F. artist's toothpick obsession reaches biblical proportions
19+ hour, 2+ min ago (621+ words) While most people see a toothpick as nothing more than a small wooden stick to pry popcorn husks from between their teeth, Steven Backman sees raw material." With a straight-edge razor, he dismantles a single toothpick into hairlike strands and…...
OPINION | A Muslim teen reacts to a Jewish leader's memorial service
19+ hour, 14+ min ago (34+ words) A 15-year-old Muslim attends a memorial service for a venerable Jewish leader and leaves with a new appreciation of interfaith activism....
More voicemails of your Bay Area family histories
22+ hour, 2+ min ago (1357+ words) Earlier this year, J. launched an audio oral history project commemorating 130 years of our reporting on Jewish life in the Bay Area. We asked community members to leave us voicemails about how their family ended up in Northern California and published…...
Rabbinical schools boast highest enrollment in years, defying downward trend
23+ hour, 23+ min ago (573+ words) Jewish Theological Seminary and Hebrew Union College will welcome their largest incoming classes since the Obama administration....
Survey: Jews in smaller communities don't feel heard about antisemitism
23+ hour, 28+ min ago (366+ words) Small town Jews are "lacking a sense of allyship in the communities around them," according to the Jewish Federations of North America....
Bay Area's Maccabi Sports Camp will move to Colorado next summer
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (1090+ words) The Maccabi Sports Camp, an overnight summer program run by the Oshman Family JCC, will move to a permanent location after renting space at local college campuses since its 2014 launch. But that forever home will not be in the Bay…...
Jewish marchers beam, dance and float in S. F. Pride Parade
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (811+ words) The Proud & Jewish contingent in Sunday's San Francisco Pride Parade featured a rainbow-saturated float with a towering Star of David made up of a tinsel triangle and a multi-colored heart. More than 130 people walked alongside or stood on the float,…...
Jewish leaders rally in Scott Wiener's defense over harassment
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (584+ words) Scott Wiener left Dolores Park on his way to a Shabbat gathering ahead of the S. F. Trans March as protesters screamed and filmed him....
Army's only airborne rabbi finds his congregation wherever he lands
2+ day, 25+ min ago (1448+ words) Rabbi Scott Klein is one of 140 chaplains at Fort Bragg, the world's largest military base, and the Army's only airborne Jewish chaplain....
How seriously should we take San Francisco's anti-Zionist hecklers?
2+ day, 11+ min ago (746+ words) The confrontations with congressional candidate Scott Wiener bubble up from a tradition of Bay Area provocateurs....