Marc Usatin, a career neonatologist/pediatrician and founding president of Congregation B’nai Tikvah in Walnut Creek, died on July 4, 2026 at his home in Davis, surrounded by his devoted family. Marc ...

COMINGS & GOINGS Micah Parzen. Micah Parzen has been named the new executive director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Parzen previously served as CE ...

Nine of 14 Northern California House Dems voted for amendment to end U.S. aid to Israel, part of the shift in Democrats’ views of Israel.

As a new documentary about Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach’s legacy debuts, J. looks back at how our publication covered him over the ...

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. I celebrated my bat mitzvah on June 20 at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley ...

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. (JTA) — BUENOS AIRES — If the phrase Argentina’s Jewish community has ...

The NYC mayor says he’s still thinking about whether he should arrest Netanyahu the next time he's in town. Nope, Trump says.

Since I moved to San Francisco four years ago, family and friends have worried. I recently felt a spark of hope and wanted to ...

Turn up the taste on a fresh, summery watermelon salad by lightly pickling the ingredients in vinegar, lime, honey and sumac.