Josh Richman
By Josh Richman
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News Cycling for a Cause
In 2002, two years after his mother succumbed to multiple sclerosis at age 60, attorney Dan Siegel was diagnosed with the chronic, debilitating disease, too. “It was a kick in the pants to really do something — not just to have a bunch of ideas that I never act on but to really get moving…
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News Star-Crossed Bay Area Synagogue Prays For a New Year Better Than the Last
Oakland, Calif. – Rabbi Chai Levy is considering a High Holy Days sermon on perseverance in the face of great adversity — and given her synagogue’s recent history, she certainly has enough anecdotal material. While Congregation Kol Shofar hasn’t quite achieved Job-like levels of trouble, the past few years have proved staggeringly unlucky for the…
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Israel News A Laughing Matter
Okay, so a Muslim, a Mormon and a Jew walk into a bar…. No, really — they do. And you’ll have to be in Northern California this September to hear the punch line. San Francisco standup comedian and producer Lisa Geduldig — a Long Island native already renowned for her Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, a…
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News New Eruv Reopens Old Church-State Debates in Palo Alto
Oakland, Calif. – Some lines, it seems, cannot be crossed. In 1999, Rabbi Yitzchok Feldman and his synagogue, Congregation Emek Beracha, approached the city of Palo Alto — an urbane community of tree-lined lanes that some of Silicon Valley’s and Stanford University’s finest minds call home — about creating an eruv, a delineated area in…
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News Musical Kids Step Onstage
Perhaps someday, we’ll look back on the moment when Anabel Hirano hefted her trombone and began her Jewish Community Youth Orchestra audition as the start of something big. Hirano, 16, might be headed for stardom and so might the JCYO, which organizers believe could be the first of its kind in the nation — an…
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News A ‘Cable Car’ Tour of San Francisco, for the Price of a Mitzvah
San Francisco – Clang, clang, clang went the trolley, ding, ding, ding, went the rabbi….” Or, maybe, “I left my mitzvah… in San Franciscah….” Sing it however you’d like, as long as you sing it with good intentions. That, at least, seems to be the philosophy behind the new Chabad Cable Car here. Operated by…
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News California Deploys K-9s With a Nose for Hebrew
Oakland, Calif. – Jason Luna, deputy of the Alameda County sheriff’s office, looks down at his new partner and says “Chapess,” approximating the Hebrew word for “search.” In an instant, Rex — a 2 1/2-year-old German shepherd/Belgian malinois mix — is nosing around the edges of the parked car. Seconds later, he signals Luna that…
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News In It To Win It
They wander in a few minutes early — the rabbi, the baker, the doctors and many others — clasping hands and murmuring “Shalom aleichem” before preparing themselves for the evening’s proceedings. But this isn’t synagogue, and soon they’re helmeted, armed with sticks and running full tilt. This is the Oakland Kochavim street/ball hockey league in…
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