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Emilio Aguilar, 5, plays soccer with his stepmother Valerie Pacheco (left) and grandfather Freddy Plaza at Cedar Rose Park in Berkeley. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Latin Jews celebrate opening of bilingual ‘family school’ in Berkeley

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb August 9, 2024August 9, 2024
UnXeptable member Shimrit Braun Kamin of Burlingame speaks at a rally protesting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Washington, D.C., July 24, 2024. (Gili Getz)
Posted inBay Area

‘This war needs to end,’ Bay Area Israeli expats tell Netanyahu in D.C.

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb July 30, 2024July 30, 2024
a goat seen through the holes in a fence
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‘Urban Adamitzvah’: Berkeley’s Jewish farm to celebrate 13 years of growth

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb July 26, 2024July 26, 2024
Rabbi Mark Bloom of Temple Beth Abraham explaining Jewish religion to Catholic school teachers participating in a 4-day  seminar sponsored by The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights. (Deborah Lauter)
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Happenings, comings & goings, honors and philanthropy — July 2024

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb July 26, 2024July 30, 2024
Peter Buxtun, a former employee of the U.S. Public Health Service, helped bring an end to the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. (Courtesy Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
Posted inObituaries

Former San Franciscan who exposed Tuskegee syphilis study dies at 86

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb July 17, 2024July 24, 2024
This photo of cemetery workers picketing at Hills of Eternity appeared in our June 11, 1971 issue. (Saul Miller)
Posted inFrom the Archives

In the ’70s and ’80s, Bay Area Jewish cemeteries faced a series of labor strikes

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb July 8, 2024July 9, 2024
Or Shalom Jewish Community building dedication June 9, 2024. (Glenn Mar)
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Honors, happenings, comings & goings — June 2024

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb June 28, 2024July 26, 2024
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Queer poet weaves mysticism and memoir in new book

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb June 13, 2024June 14, 2024
The 11 founding residents of the Berkeley Bayit on the deck of the house in 1980. (Photo/Courtesy Berkeley Bayit)
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Berkeley Bayit, oldest Jewish co-op in U.S., to reopen after major renovations

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb June 6, 2024June 10, 2024
Police in riot gear walk towards UC Berkeley's Anna Head complex to clear protesters from the building, May 16, 2024. (Photo/@JovankaBeckles via Twitter)
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Police in riot gear arrest 12 anti-Zionist protesters occupying condemned UC Berkeley building  

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb May 17, 2024May 21, 2024

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