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Barbara Cook was watching the horror in Ukraine unfold on TV and feeling helpless when she stood up, turned off the television, and started packing her bags. Fifty-six bags, to be precise. Cook, an entrepreneur who lives in the East Bay and the daughter of Holocaust survivors, started gathered donations of clothing, toiletries and suitcases…
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News Jennifer Esteen, a Black Jewish lesbian California Assembly candidate, is ready to break more barriers
As a nurse in San Francisco General Hospital’s psychiatric emergency room, Jennifer Esteen’s typical first task was to, as she put it, “take people out of handcuffs.” Twelve years of treating mentally ill patients brought to the ER by law enforcement taught Esteen that the health care system, especially regarding mental health, was broken. She…
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News After 25 years, iconic He’Brew beer shuts off the tap
Jeremy Cowan, who launched He’Brew beer in San Francisco in 1996, has decided to close the spigot on the brand that brought high quality craft beer—and innumerable Jewish puns— to weddings, bar mitzvahs and liquor stores around the country. Cowan has been the face of He’Brew and its Shmaltz Brewing Company – the only identifiably…
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News Why San Francisco is home to the world’s oldest Jewish film festival
Just a few years ago, at a gathering of filmmakers during the annual Berlin Film Festival, I was asked by a perplexed newcomer to the festival scene why the oldest and largest Jewish film festival in the world took place in, of all places, San Francisco. As a native-born San Francisco Jew and a former…
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News San Francisco deli Manny’s defaced with antisemitic graffiti…again
Jewish business owner Manny Yekutiel’s popular, community-focused Mission District café was vandalized over the weekend with graffiti that read “Racist pigz” and “Zionist pigz.” Pictures of the graffiti, which was found on June 6, were posted on Twitter by Steven Buss, a software engineer, who tagged local politicians and wrote, “these attacks on Jewish owned…
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News University of San Francisco email accused of spreading ‘delegitimization’ of Israel
As the Israel-Hamas conflict was raging last month, a program assistant at the University of San Francisco forwarded an email to a group of students in the School of Education promoting a Palestinian protest taking place the following day. The email, sent to students in the International and Multicultural Education master’s program, included details about…
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