Sue Fishkoff, JTA

Kishinev: What really happened

SAN FRANCISCO — There was a time when “Kishinev” was all you had to say. The three days of brutal anti-Jewish violence in 1903 in...

No more national Jewish studies

SAN FRANCISCO — The American Jewish community spends a lot of money counting itself. So does the US as a whole: The 2010 US...

Unkind cut: San Francisco asked to ban circumcision

SAN FRANCISCO — In November, San Franciscans will vote on a ballot measure that would outlaw circumcision on boys under the age of...

Reform Jews tussle over Jacobs

SAN FRANCISCO — An angry exchange over the Zionist credentials of the incoming president of the Reform movement has intensified and exploded onto...

Shuls: too little, too much, security?

SAN FRANCISCO — Nobody thought much about the shabby but quiet middle-aged man who showed up last weekend at an Orthodox study hall...