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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.

In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev made the front page of our paper.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Gorbachev was closely watched in Bay Area, a center of Soviet Jewry activism

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 31, 2022August 31, 2022
An Aug. 25, 1972 article about the growing need for student loans from Hebrew Free Loan.
Posted inFrom the Archives

50 years ago this week, our newspaper was talking about student loans

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 25, 2022August 25, 2022
In an Instagram post that she has since deleted, Leanna Louie called Mission Local managing editor Joe Eskenazi, who is Jewish, "Joe EskeNAZI." (Screenshot/Instagram)
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San Francisco political hopeful under fire for ‘EskeNAZI’ post about journalist Joe Eskenazi

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 24, 2022August 26, 2022
a big glass building with students walking through a lawn in front
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S.F. State hires new legally mandated Jewish student life coordinator

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 23, 2022August 31, 2022
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai on the USS General M.C. Meigs, 1949 (Photo/Courtesy U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library)
Posted inFrom the Archives

75 years ago this week: San Francisco was ‘Port of Hope’ for Jewish refugees from Shanghai

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 17, 2022August 17, 2022
A 1949 advertisement for a JCC summer camp
Posted inFrom the Archives

A century ago, Jewish summer camps promised ‘mental and moral strength’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 12, 2022
A 1935 quiz about the Maccabiah in our publication
Posted inFrom the Archives

In our paper’s early decades, sports were a measure of ‘Jewish manhood’

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 6, 2022
Pearl Cohen, born Pearl Ruten, was delighted to read about herself in the J. archives. Right: Pearl at 16 on a date at the Tonga Room.
Posted inFrom the Archives

84-year-old surprised to find her name (and bat mitzvah) in J. archives 

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 13, 2022June 13, 2022
Especially during Diwali, Hindus may decorate their homes or outside areas with swastikas to symbolize auspiciousness; some, like this one, are made on the ground out of rice flour.
(Photo/Courtesy Hindu American Foundation)
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New state hate crime bill differentiates Hindu swastika from Nazi emblem

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 27, 2022November 12, 2023
“Our mission as New Lehrhaus is to provide some anchoring in Jewish tradition, Jewish practice,” said Rachel Biale, who runs New Lehrhaus with her husband, David.
Posted inBay Area

New Lehrhaus class series views abortion through Jewish lens

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 24, 2022May 26, 2022

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