Maya Mirsky Maya Mirsky is a J. Staff Writer based in Oakland. Recent Stories Jun 13, 2022 84-year-old surprised to find her name (and bat mitzvah) in J. archives May 27, 2022 New CA hate crime bill differentiates swastika from Nazi emblem May 24, 2022 New Lehrhaus class series views abortion through Jewish lens May 23, 2022 Bay Area Jewish delis of yore — gone but not forgotten May 18, 2022 Funding boost for Berkeley Hillel, Israeli visiting scholar at Stanford May 10, 2022 What rabbis said about abortion in our paper in 1975 May 10, 2022 Q&A: How abortion laws shaped three generations of this family May 4, 2022 Bay Area Jewish politicians outraged after SCOTUS abortion leak May 4, 2022 How we covered Israeli independence 74 years ago May 3, 2022 Israeli 'unicorn' startups gallop to success in Bay Area Apr 29, 2022 ‘Am Yisrael High’: Jewish cannabis connection examined in Berkeley Apr 21, 2022 ‘It’s a privilege’: Bay Area rabbis in Poland bear witness to Ukrainian refugee crisis Apr 20, 2022 Fresno State report sheds light on librarian’s Nazi views Apr 18, 2022 Weightlifter Jacob Bockelmann headed for 2022 Maccabiah games Apr 14, 2022 In 1898, this newspaper declared the haggadah ‘literary nonsense’ Apr 7, 2022 Artist ‘Maimonides Nutz’ spins Talmud into social media gold Mar 31, 2022 Righteous diplomats of the Holocaust honored in San Jose exhibit Mar 29, 2022 San Francisco’s first bat mitzvah in 1947 paved the way for others Mar 24, 2022 Q&A: How ‘fake news’ and disinformation fuel the war in Ukraine Mar 24, 2022 ‘Here I Am’: Marin officials, residents gather to denounce antisemitism Next Page