San Francisco was home to the world’s first woman cantor — Madam Julie Rosewald, who served for years as cantor of Emanu-El.

( JTA) — I first noticed something was off on the first day of class. I had given my students in my “Sociology of American Jewish life” course at Tulane University blank index cards, asking them to ...

Daniel Naroditsky, a former child prodigy, attended Jewish day school in the Bay Area and became one of the world's foremost ...

The objectionable material was “Pedal Pusher,” a picture book about 19th-century cyclist Annie Cohen Kopchovsky.

Two very different circuses by Jewish directors are coming to town, with acts that range from modern acrobatics to trained ...

Palo Alto JPA director Yana Rathman, who emigrated from Kiev in 1989 as a young adult and now works in instructional ...

You can serve the vegan Spiced Pilaf in a Pumpkin along with scoops of the cooked pumpkin as a side dish or even as a light ...

( JTA) — Rabbi Arthur Waskow, an activist and author of more than two dozen books that refracted progressive causes like ...