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Alix Wall

Alix Wall

Alix Wall is a contributing editor to J. She is also the founder of the Illuminoshi: The Not-So-Secret Society of Bay Area Jewish Food Professionals and is writer/producer of a documentary-in-progress called "The Lonely Child."

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib at his home in Pacifica on Jan. 19, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inNews

Bay Area Gazan turns loss into compelling case for a ‘different future’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 24, 2024June 23, 2025
A bicyclist peers through a window at Smitten ice cream in San Francisco, Nov. 22, 2023. The chain's Valencia Street location was vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti the month before. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inBay Area

‘We’re just a bagel shop’: Local Jewish and Israeli restaurateurs targeted over Gaza war

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 16, 2024February 23, 2024
Elyse Weiner holds a sign demanding humanitarian relief in Gaza during a peace vigil in Oakland, Jan. 7, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inNews

Israeli-organized peace vigil makes space for people to mourn both sides

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 8, 2024January 9, 2024
An undated photo of Ann Gonski. (Photo/Courtesy Gonski family)
Posted inObituaries

Ann Gonski, Camp Tawonga leader for decades, dies at 72

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 27, 2023December 28, 2023
Rabbi Yisroel Labkowski at Bay Kosher, his packed little grocery store in Lafayette, Dec. 12, 2023. (Photo/Alix Wall)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Chabad rabbi looks to expand his little kosher market in Lafayette

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 19, 2023August 6, 2025
Hundreds attended the seventh-night lighting of a replacement menorah at Lake Merritt on Dec. 13, 2023, after the previous one was destroyed. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inBay Area

Hundreds attend Oakland menorah lighting after antisemitic vandalism

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 14, 2023December 15, 2023
Left: Tamir Ben-Shalom is the bar manager and, since March of this year, the owner of Bull Valley Roadhouse in Port Costa. Right: The dining room of Bull Valley Roadhouse. (Photos/Risa Scott)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Owner of funky roadhouse in Port Costa worked his way up from busboy

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 11, 2023December 20, 2023
Aviv Shakked picks avocados at Kibbutz Be'eri near Gaza, where the Mill Valley teen volunteered last month. (Photo/Courtesy Shakked)
Posted inNews

Marin teen follows his heart, travels solo to Israel to volunteer on evacuated kibbutzim

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 1, 2023December 1, 2023
Eyal Waldman speaking to members of the Bay Area chapter of UnXeptable on Nov. 29.
Posted inNews

Eyal Waldman, a tech giant whose daughter was killed by Hamas, is open to peace

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 30, 2023December 4, 2023
a man handles a pizza with steam visibly rising from it
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Award-winning pizza maker at Oakland’s Acre Kitchen hasn’t strayed far from his roots

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 27, 2023April 21, 2025

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