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Alissa Greenberg

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Alissa Greenberg is a freelance writer based in Berkeley. She writes about science, culture and community for publications including TIME, The Atlantic, the New Yorker and the Washington Post. Her skills include navigating foreign transit systems, losing sunglasses and detecting Boston accents from a mile away.

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When Tim Johnson first started work as community life director at the Bayside Park eldercare facility in Emeryville three years ago, he was going over the budget and found a […]

Matt and Rabbi Samantha Kahn at an AJC event in San Francisco (Photo/Mark Sandstorm )
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New directors at two S.F. Jewish agencies are husband, wife

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a long body-shaped dummy is spread out on a table in front of an audience as women discuss what to do with it
Posted inCommunity, Religion, Jewish Life

Body work: Caretakers of the Jewish dead gather in Marin

Alissa Greenberg by Alissa Greenberg June 26, 2017June 27, 2017
the three of them stand outside in the sun in front of a table with an open torah school on it
Posted inBay Area

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