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Lea Loeb is a reporter at J. She previously served as editorial assistant.

The California state Capitol building is seen in Sacramento, April 12, 2022. (Josh Hild via Pexels)
Posted inCalifornia

California Senate committee advances bill adding ‘Jewish’ ethnic category on forms

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 16, 2026April 16, 2026
Jeanette Ringold speaks often about being a hidden child and how she learned what really happened. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Dutch ‘hidden child’ had to piece together her own story

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 14, 2026April 17, 2026
Cantor Martin Feldman and his wife, Nancy, in 2015. (Courtesy Congregation Sherith Israel)
Posted inObituaries

Cantor Martin Feldman, 97, remembered as the voice of Sherith Israel

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 8, 2026April 8, 2026
A 300-pound plaster sphinx head from Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 film "The Then Commandments," which was buried along with the rest of the set under the sand at Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes for almost a century. (Courtesy Dunes Center)
Posted inPassover

10 things to do with your kids during Passover in Northern California

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 7, 2026April 7, 2026
City College of San Francisco's Mission Campus. (Thomas Hawk/ CC BY-NC 2.0)
Posted inBay Area

‘Colonizer’ rant targeting CCSF instructor violated workplace policies, investigation concludes

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 3, 2026April 5, 2026
The seder plate at last year's “Coming Home: A Sensual Seder for Love and Liberation” event. (Courtesy Mira Stern)
Posted inIdeas

This seder leans on sensory experiences and a ‘liberation chic’ dress code

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 3, 2026April 6, 2026
California state capitol building with dome
Posted inCalifornia

California bill would add Jewish identity as an ethnicity on forms

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 30, 2026March 31, 2026
One of the documents translated by AI is a book, handwritten likely by a Baghdadi youth in 5603 (1902 or 1903). The book features prayers, poems and a haggadah that translates the Hebrew to Judeo-Arabic. These pages show a portion of The Four Questions. (Courtesy Voices from the Archive)
Posted inIdeas

Oakland man’s AI platform unlocks a treasure trove of Iraqi Jewish history

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 27, 2026March 27, 2026
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Posted inNorthern California

Understanding ADL’s ‘Antisemitism Report Card’ for colleges and universities

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 23, 2026March 31, 2026
Rabbi Sharon Brous delivering a sermon at Ikar. (Courtesy Ikar)
Posted inBay Area

Rabbi Sharon Brous: We must ‘rehumanize’ each other in an ‘inhumane world’

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 18, 2026March 18, 2026

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