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Maya Mirsky
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Maya Mirsky

Maya Mirsky is the managing editor of J. She lives in Oakland and previously served as culture editor at J.

One of many self-driving Cruise cars approved for use on the streets of San Francisco. (Photo/Courtesy Cruise)
Posted inNews

Are self-driving cars kosher? San Francisco rabbis weigh in as robotaxis flood the city’s streets

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 23, 2023October 29, 2023
Rabbi Zoe McCoon leads Temple Beth Torah's livestreamed Friday night service on Aug. 4, the week before a bomb threat interrupted another livestreamed service at the Fremont synagogue. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inBay Area

‘We didn’t expect it to happen to us’: Fremont’s Beth Torah recounts Shabbat bomb scare

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 15, 2023August 16, 2023
A Young Men's Hebrew Association baseball team in St. Louis, ca. 1930. (Photo/File-Courtesy American Jewish Historical Society)
Posted inFrom the Archives

‘A sport-loving people,’ Jews always felt at home in baseball

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 15, 2023August 15, 2023
Sholem Aleichem at his writing desk in 1904.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Books we reviewed in the early 1900s had not one ‘beach read’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 4, 2023August 6, 2023
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival co-directors Deborah Kaufman and Janis Plotkin in 1991 on the balcony of the Castro Theatre. (Photo/File)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Wilder, Abzug, Vishniac: How we covered S.F. Jewish Film Fest headliners over the years

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 14, 2023July 14, 2023
Members of the recently formed Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in June 1979 during the “San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.” (Joe Altman-California Historical Society)
Posted inFrom the Archives

In the ’70s and ’80s, our letter-writers went to battle over gay rights

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 20, 2023June 21, 2023
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What to do about online hate speech online? Supreme Court says ask Congress

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 9, 2023
From our March 26, 1926 issue, heralding the then-new Emanu-El building
Posted inFrom the Archives

‘Dedicated to the cause of Judaism’: Years after devastating 1906 quake, Emanu-El rose again

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 7, 2023June 8, 2023
A car drove into the Oakland location of Wise Sons deli on June 4. It was the second time in just over a year. (Photos/Courtesy Evan Bloom)
Posted inNews

Car smashes into Wise Sons deli in Oakland during street race

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 6, 2023June 6, 2023
Jewish leaders and other Sacramento leaders gathered at a press conference to denounce antisemitism, May 30, 2023. (Photo/Diane Weber)
Posted inNorthern California

Sacramento leaders denounce antisemitism after chaotic city council meetings

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 31, 2023

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