Giving back is an integral part of the holiday season — donating gifts to toy drives, picking up a shift at the soup kitchen, tossing some change into the Salvation Army kettle.It can be a way of life, as routine as flossing at night.The week before Hanukkah, a group of Jewish community members gathered at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium as part of Project Homeless Connect to help homeless people obtain needed medical, career and legal services.
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When Rabbi Pinchas Lipner learned a neighbor to his Orthodox Jewish school wanted to put AT&T Wireless antennas on its roof and that the public hearing on the matter was scheduled on a Jewish holiday, he sounded the alarm.
The hearing was originally scheduled for Thursday, the first day of Sukkot, an eight-day holiday during which Orthodox Jews do not drive or ride in vehicles.
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A circumcision ban measure on the November ballot contains clearly anti-Semitic campaign material and targets members of the Jewish faith, according to a press release Thursday from the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office.
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