Joe Biden’s victory is cause for long-delayed celebration among the majority of American Jews. According to a J Street voter survey, Biden received 77% of the Jewish vote. The final number may change up or down, but, hey, getting north of 70% of Jews to agree on anything is in and of itself a cause…
We lived on the 6th floor. Cecilia Chiang lived on the 11th, the penthouse. It was a 1960’s building that looked like it belonged in Miami Beach, not at the top of a hill in Pacific Heights across the street from Lafayette Park in San Francisco. But it made sense that Mrs. Chiang lived there…
In early 2017 and 2018, some of us warned about the clear-for-all-to-see dangers of President Donald Trump to the values and norms that keep Jews and other minorities safe in this nation. We asked other Jewish leaders to speak out on behalf of their organizations and the community about what was happening to our democracy….
Religious groups that are pushing San Francisco to open up houses of worship to more congregants are doing so without the support of one faith group: Jews. After the United States Department of Justice sent a stern letter to San Francisco Mayor London Breed saying that her ban on indoor worship services, “raises serious concerns…
In large measure, Jewish Republicans in Florida are standing by their man. They just wish he’d have let the other guy talk a little more. “I love President Trump; he just needs to keep his mouth shut and stop talking,” said Perri Cohen, president of the Conservative Club of Wynmoor, a senior community in Broward…
On Sunday afternoon at the busy intersection of Pico Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard, Temple Beth Am congregant Sandra Lepson was among those who’d turned out to hear the shofar in a public space with other people while maintaining social distancing. “I thought this was a really cool idea and I wanted to be witness…
Even as they struggle to help families hit hard by the coronavirus and the economic downtown, Jewish organizations in California and the Pacific Northwest are mobilized — once again — to help victims of the wildfires that have devastated large swaths of region. “The mood and tone here?” said Marc Blattner, president and chief executive…
Sam Yebri was a year old in 1982 when his Jewish family fled Iran, stopping in Rome, Vienna, Switzerland and New York before settling in Los Angeles in 1983. Looking back, he recognizes his family’s good fortune. Not only did they escape the new Islamic regime under Ayatollah Khomeini, Los Angeles gave the Yebri family…
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