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Liz Harris

Liz Harris is a J. contributor. She was J.'s culture editor from 2012 to 2018.

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Posted inSeniors

Jewish memoirist and icon of Stockton active and Zooming at 97

by Liz Harris August 11, 2021August 12, 2021
an older white man in biking garb atop an exercise bike
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: How a retired stockbroker became the ‘Spinning Rabbi’

by Liz Harris July 28, 2021
Jenette Woskow, with children Xavier and Elise, is the marketing and publicity chair of Kesher Oak Hadassah, a relatively new chapter of Hadassah, the venerable Zionist women's group.
Posted inNews

New East Bay Hadassah chapter focuses on women in 30s and 40s

by Liz Harris July 12, 2021July 21, 2021
Rachel Michelberg is the author of “Crash: How I Became a Reluctant Caregiver.”
Posted inBooks

Memoir: Faced with a lifetime of caregiving after husband’s accident, she said no

by Liz Harris June 23, 2021June 23, 2021
Marcy Berman with Mazel Tov and friend. (Photo/Steven Tan)
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: She puts a hoppy face on many a sad bunny

by Liz Harris June 22, 2021June 25, 2021
The new Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building at UCSF is named in honor of John Pritzker's sister, who died by suicide at the age of 24 in 1972. (Photo/Courtesy Pritzker family)
Posted inPhilanthropy

$60 million gift from Pritzkers builds UCSF family psychiatry center

by Liz Harris May 20, 2021
Tehiyah Day School, which closed in 2018, is disbursing its remaining funds to other Bay Area Jewish schools. (Photo/From file)
Posted inEducation

Tehiyah Day School’s last act: grants for East Bay students at other Jewish schools

by Liz Harris April 27, 2021
Norm Gershenz with male and female Eastern lubber grasshoppers “mate guarding.”
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: A steward of nature explains why we love (and hate) bugs

by Liz Harris April 22, 2021
A group of young Bay Area Jews, many of whom were involved with a sit-in for Jewish education in 1972, pose as "chalutzim" at UC Berkeley in the '70s. Standing (from left): Elaine Schlackman, David De Nola, Marcie Lincoff, David Lichtenstein, Arnie Druck, Jack Morgenstein,
Buddy Timberg, Judy Timberg and Shaul Osadchy. Seated/kneeling (from left): David Biale, Jane Rubin, Miri Gold, Bradley Burston, Ken Bob and the Timbergs' dog.
Posted inHistory

‘We organized like a military operation’: Remembering a radical Jewish sit-in 50 years ago in S.F.

by Liz Harris April 8, 2021April 10, 2021
Eric Fomil with grandson Ilan Rosenbaum.
Posted inCommunity

Our Pandemic Year: Lives lost and families changed forever

by Liz Harris March 18, 2021March 20, 2021

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