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Frances Dinkelspiel

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Frances Dinkelspiel is a journalist, author and co-founder of Berkeleyside.

Tribal leader and Sogorea Te’ Land Trust co-founder Corrina Gould speaks at the West Berkeley Shellmound rematriation celebration on Saturday. (Kelly Sullivan/Berkeleyside)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish allies join Ohlone to celebrate transfer of West Berkeley Shellmound to Indigenous hands

Frances Dinkelspiel by Frances Dinkelspiel July 16, 2024July 16, 2024

A version of this article first appeared in Berkeleyside and is reprinted with permission. Hundreds of people gathered at the West Berkeley Shellmound on Saturday evening to celebrate the transfer […]

Andrew Hoffman as a child with his father, Abbie Hoffman, stepmother Anita Kushner and younger sister Amy (out of frame). (Photo/Courtesy Hoffman)
Posted inCulture

Abbie Hoffman’s Bay Area son, activists recall real ‘Chicago 7’ trial

Frances Dinkelspiel by Frances Dinkelspiel October 30, 2020November 11, 2020
a young man and an older woman walk down the street together
Posted inNews

Andy Samberg gives his Berkeley mother a gift: the truth about her birth parents

Frances Dinkelspiel by Frances Dinkelspiel January 11, 2019
Posted inOpinion

Jews celebrating Christmas — it’s a California thing

Frances Dinkelspiel by Frances Dinkelspiel December 19, 2008December 16, 2020
Posted inOpinion

Bavarian town rediscovering its Jewish history

Frances Dinkelspiel by Frances Dinkelspiel August 8, 2003October 4, 2021

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