Sue Fishkoff

Rabbi Brian Lurie has spent six decades in service to the Jewish people. From his first position in 1969 as a newly ordained Reform rabbi at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, he went on to serve 17 years as executive director of what is now the Jewi... See more

Ilia Korguzalov stood on the bimah at Saratoga’s Congregation Beth David on Aug. 8, holding his 6-year-old daughter in his arms. Lina Korguzalov had her long blond hair in a ponytail and wore white tights and a denim dress with puffy sleeves. A feeding tu... See more

It’s been quite the journey for Rabbi Rishe Groner, the new assistant rabbi at Chochmat HaLev, a Renewal congregation in Berkeley. “I’m a Chabad-raised, Conservative-ordained, Renewal-adjacent, Shechinah-obsessed, embodied, post-Hasidic Jewish woman,” she... See more

Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. Many local Jews know Daniel Grossman as former CEO of the Jewish Federation Bay Area or as founder of Wild Planet Toys. But before all of that , back in the 1980s, he w... See more

A Jewish child was born in Lithuania in 1939. Two years later, her father was dead and her mother smuggled the girl out of the Vilna Ghetto to be raised as a “hidden child” by her Catholic nanny. In 1943, Jewish poet and partisan Shmerke Kaczerginski wrot... See more