Kishinev: What really happened
Sue Fishkoff, JTAApr 12, 2018
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 the capital city of present-day...
No more national Jewish studies
Sue Fishkoff, JTAJul 14, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO The American Jewish community spends a lot of money counting itself. So does the US as a whole: The 2010 US Census cost taxpayers $13 billion. While...
Unkind cut: San Francisco asked to ban circumcision
Sue Fishkoff, JTAJun 02, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO In November, San Franciscans will vote on a ballot measure that would outlaw circumcision on boys under the age of 18. Although experts say it is...
Reform Jews tussle over Jacobs
Sue Fishkoff, JTAMay 05, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO An angry exchange over the Zionist credentials of the incoming president of the Reform movement has intensified and exploded onto the public stage. The...
Shuls: too little, too much, security?
Sue Fishkoff, JTAApr 22, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO Nobody thought much about the shabby but quiet middle-aged man who showed up last weekend at an Orthodox study hall in suburban Cleveland. But when...
Moosewood Cookbook and kosher
Sue Fishkoff, JTAMar 31, 2011
BERKELEY Cookbook maven Mollie Katzen is in her Berkeley kitchen whipping up a little dinner for her daughter, who is home visiting from college. Steamed artichoke...
Limmud: perfect networking tool for authors, artists, groups
Sue Fishkoff, JTAJan 20, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO Journalist and author Lisa Alcalay Klug flew across the country this month to present at Limmud NY, the annual New York version of the worldwide Jewish...
Rabbis remember marching with Martin Luther King in South in 1960s
Sue Fishkoff, JTAJan 13, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO Rabbi Israel Dresner, 81, says hes the most arrested rabbi in America. At least that was the case in the 1960s, he says, when Dresner was one...
New rabbinical school in Canada is between Orthodox and Conservative
Sue Fishkoff, JTADec 16, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO When the opening of a new rabbinical school is announced, the obvious first question for many is: What denomination is it? In the case of a new...
Reform movement: Reinvent ourselves!
Sue Fishkoff, JTADec 02, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO After the Reform movement broadcast online its first session devoted to reassessing itself, in mid-November, the comments poured in. One viewer...
