Marin County’s Board of Supervisors issued a resolution Tuesday condemning “antisemitism and all forms of hate speech” in response to flyering incidents across the county this year. Lillian Ilsley-Greene reports: jweekly.com/2022/08/25/mar…

"We need more than thoughts and prayers to keep us safe," says Jesse Gabriel, who introduced the bill, which would extend the state's nonprofit security grants program indefinitely and increase the amount orgs can apply for. Lillian Ilsley-Greene reports: jweekly.com/2022/08/31/sta…

.Urban Adamah, the Jewish community farm and spiritual center in Berkeley, will begin construction on a new gathering space this month, which will complete plans for the campus that have been in the works since 2013. Lillian Ilsley-Greene reports: jweekly.com/2022/09/01/urb…

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A little story about this breathtaking project, now at the Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco through October 15. My latest for J. The Jewish News of Northern California: jweekly.com/2022/09/07/gay…

Or Shalom Jewish Community, San Francisco's only Reconstructionist synagogue, has bought three adjoining properties in Bernal Heights — the community's first permanent home. Lillian Ilsley-Greene reports: jweekly.com/2022/09/23/aft…

At the close of this year's California legislative session, JPAC celebrated 15 wins in areas including cyberhate, security and Holocaust education. Lillian Ilsley-Greene reports: jweekly.com/2022/10/06/leg… CA Legislative Jewish Caucus Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan Marc Levine Jesse Gabriel (((David Bocarsly)))

One Chabad accomplishes a decades-long goal, while another is just getting started. For J. The Jewish News of Northern California: jweekly.com/2022/10/19/20m…

Last night, @myrnamelgar Joe Eskenazi Christine Pelosi and Ben Tulchin spoke to voters about congressional campaigns, the SF city ballot and issues of housing reform at the Raoul Wallenberg Jewish Democratic Club’s forum. My recap for J. The Jewish News of Northern California: jweekly.com/2022/10/25/s-f…

A mobile billboard parked outside Berkeley Law Wednesday to name students and accuse them of being antisemites for their vote to ban Zionist speakers from their student groups. Students have already received threats, Dean Chemerinsky said. In J. The Jewish News of Northern California: jweekly.com/2022/10/27/con…

A 2021 survey found that while the majority of Jewish students have not experienced antisemitism, 65% do not feel comfortable sharing their identity with their classmates. Our report on SF State's Campus Climate Initiative in J. The Jewish News of Northern California: jweekly.com/2022/11/04/sur…

“We need to wonder as a community about how race and racism informs our community,” @JoCInitiative’s Ilana Kaufman on the future of Jewish philanthropy. My latest for J. The Jewish News of Northern California: jweekly.com/2022/12/05/rac…

Ariel Kelley, Healdsburg’s first Jewish mayor since 1886, has starting her term in office by reaching out to the Indigenous communities around the city. On Friday, she’ll help to host a joint Hannukah and las Posada celebration. In J. The Jewish News of Northern California: jweekly.com/2022/12/13/hea…

“I’d like to really bring a crystal-clear focus back to student success,” Nick Resnick, Oakland’s newest school board member and the first trans man elected to a school board in CA, on his goals for the next four years. In J. The Jewish News of Northern California: jweekly.com/2022/12/16/thi…

NEW, but also old: a hate group that started in Petaluma has spread across the country, terrorizing communities large and small. For 3 1/2 years, they've dodged any kind of repercussions. My latest for J. The Jewish News of Northern California w Gabe Stutman: jweekly.com/2023/04/28/how…

A trans Jewish teen from Oakland tells their own story in an episode of the teen-made miniseries “There’s Nothing Left for You.” Lillian Ilsley-Greene talks with Madds Dittmer about antisemitism, transphobia and filmmaking: jweekly.com/2023/05/02/tra…

The vast majority of state anti-bias grants are going to California schools that don’t address antisemitism in their plans, says JIMENA. Lillian Ilsley-Greene reports: jweekly.com/2023/05/08/jim…

One of my favorite stories I've written for J. The Jewish News of Northern California so far, a profile of the mountain Jews of Lake Tahoe. Former Bat Yam president John Kuzmik sums it up: “We’re a small community, but we’re not afraid to think big." jweekly.com/2023/05/12/tah…

Last week, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg shut down a man going on an antisemitic rant at a City Council meeting. “Those aren’t usually the words I use in public,” he told me. “But I think they were appropriate.” Read the full story in J. The Jewish News of Northern California: jweekly.com/2023/05/23/ok-…

Last June, archivists at GLBT Historical Society started looking through their (extensive) holdings for material relating to the Bay Area’s queer Jewish community. My story in J. The Jewish News of Northern California on what they found: jweekly.com/2023/06/23/fro…