J. The Jewish News of Northern California

J. The Jewish News of Northern California, originally called Jweekly, is a weekly newspaper that serves the Northern California area. Its online version is refreshed every day. The publication is managed by San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc. and is located in San Francisco, California.

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Hasidah, Jewish nonprofit that subsidized IVF, is shutting down

1 month ago | jweekly.com | Niva Ashkenazi |Lea Loeb

The Bay Area-based org's focus was IVF grants, but its founder also offered pastoral care and created resources for rabbis to do the same.
Mobile museum teaches local teens how hate takes root

1 month ago | jweekly.com | Dan Pine

The students in Piedmont High School's sophomore acting class had never heard the word "putsch." But they were about to find out what it means. Their class on Tuesday took place inside a bus that doubles as one of four Mobile Museums of Tolerance (MMOT). Parked near Piedmont City Hall for the week, it was outfitted to seat 30, movie theater-style, with three screens projecting films and photos that brought history to life.
Marin school district apologizes for video with Leila Khaled T-shirt

1 month ago | jweekly.com | Gabe Stutman

An educational video on LGBTQ issues shown this month to high school students in Marin County featured a young transgender woman smiling softly, wearing a cream cardigan over a T-shirt that glorifies a Palestinian hijacker. The T-shirt displays the image of a kaffiyeh-clad woman holding an assault rifle and the words "resistance is not terrorism." The woman is Leila Khaled, a longtime member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Calls for 'intifada' at Cal protest of Israeli dance company

1 month ago | jweekly.com | Sue Fishkoff

Patrons attending two sold-out performances of the Batsheva Dance Company at UC Berkeley over the weekend had to run a gauntlet of anti-Israel protesters outside the venue. Some 40 or 50 protesters flanked police barricades set up outside Zellerbach Hall on Saturday evening, flying Palestinian flags and shouting anti-Israel slogans, decrying Cal's hosting of an Israeli modern dance company they consider "ambassadors of Israeli genocide," according to one protester's sign.
Jewish man to sue Oakland coffee shop that ejected him

2 months ago | jweekly.com | Gabe Stutman

A team of lawyers is putting the finishing touches on a lawsuit against Oakland's Jerusalem Coffee House, J. learned this week, and is planning to file a complaint in state court alleging civil rights violations "very, very soon," one lawyer said. The lawsuit promises to launch the coffee shop back into the headlines after a series of incidents last year, including an internet firestorm when it released a "Sweet Sinwar" drink around the first anniversary of the Oct.
One year later, Jews at UC Berkeley reflect on violent protest

2 months ago | jweekly.com | Emma Goss

Zellerbach Playhouse shows no trace today of the battering it took a year ago when a violent mob attacked the UC Berkeley performing arts venue. A glass door and large window were broken the night of Feb. 26, 2024, when many of the 200 protesters forcefully banged against Zellerbach's entrance and eventually stormed the theater.
UC Berkeley removes event description denying Oct. 7 rapes

Jan 24, 2025 | jweekly.com | Gabe Stutman

A now-removed description of an upcoming event at UC Berkeley accused Israel of fabricating reports of widespread sexual assault on Oct. 7, 2023, to support its war against Hamas. The description of the event, a panel organizedby the gender and women's studies department, said it would "look at how Zionism has weaponized feminism, so as to serve Israel's genocidal intent, by upholding debunked accusations of systematic Hamas mass assault," according to a screenshot shared with J. The Feb.
Lee Yaron’s account of Oct. 7 named Jewish book of the year

Jan 22, 2025 | jweekly.com | Andrew Silow-Carroll

"10/7: 100 Human Stories" was among a number of books on Israel honored by the 74th National Jewish Book Awards.
South Bay student recounts antisemitic bullying that led to lawsuit

Nov 27, 2024 | jweekly.com | Emma Goss

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. The emotional wounds are still fresh for 13-year-old Ella, even though it’s been a year since she fled her San Jose public charter school to escape relentless antisemitic bullying and harassment. “It’s been a long year,” Ella’s mom, Elisa Schweizer, told J. on Nov. 21, choking back tears. She was seated next to her daughter on the couch in their home.
Israel’s sanctions on Haaretz offer a warning and a lesson

Nov 27, 2024 | jweekly.com | David Wilensky

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. Israel’scabinet unanimously approved a proposal on Nov. 24 to sanction the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz. Under theresolution, no government body may communicate with Haaretz or place advertisements in the paper. These sanctions provide a warning to all of us who care about democratic freedoms — and a lesson for those few of us who lead news organizations. First, the lesson.