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Sports Why a non-Jewish NBA player is buying Hanukkah donuts for fans
The first 500 fans to drop by Section 111 at the Sacramento Kings' home game Wednesday night can pick up a free jelly donut
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News During quarantine, a Sacramento deli switches pastrami for homeless meals
Since July 1 of last year, Jami Goldstene, a former public relations executive, had spent seven days a week running Solomon’s Delicatessen in Sacramento a long-awaited Jewish deli she co-owns that had finally opened after years of delays. Then came Covid-19. On March 15, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that restaurants had to shift to…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Who Backs Trump Announces GOP Run For Congress
Political campaigns often attract candidates with extraordinary biographies, but none may be as unique as that of Dr. Yona Barash, who announced last month that he was running as a Republican challenger in a Sacramento swing district. Barash was born in Romania in 1945, when it was occupied by Nazi Germany. His family made it…
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Food Deli Is Dubbed Solomon’s To Honor Tower Records Founder
If you’re a music lover of a certain age, you probably have fond memories of Tower Records, the gargantuan stores that seemed to carry every audible work ever recorded. Now, a Sacramento deli is being named in honor of Tower founder and native son Russ Solomon, who is 91. Solomon’s Deli will open in late…
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Breaking News 10 Hurt as Clashes Erupt at Neo-Nazi Rally in Sacramento
At least 10 people were injured at a rally outside the California state capitol in Sacramento on Sunday as members of a white supremacist group clashed with counter-protesters, authorities said. The melee erupted during a rally staged by the Traditionalist Worker Party, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white nationalist extremist group….
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Breaking News Darrel Steinberg Suggests He’ll Run for Mayor of Sacramento
California’s former top Democrat legislator hinted broadly on Tuesday that he will run for mayor of Sacramento, bringing political heft to a race to succeed Kevin Johnson, the former basketball star whose boosterism helped revitalize his home town Darrell Steinberg, a former president pro tem of the state senate and a onetime Sacramento City Council…
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Breaking News Sacramento Approves Israel Sister City Deal
Sacramento City Council voted unanimously to approve a sister-city relationship with Ashkelon, despite opposition from pro-Palestinian organizations. The Tuesday night vote came after testimony from opponents and supporters, the Sacramento Bee reported. Some of the 250 spectators crowded into council chambers held Israeli flags; others wore T-shirts reading, “Got human rights? Palestinians don’t,” or carried…
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