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

From a 1997 issue of the Jewish Bulletin, this publication's previous name.
Posted inFrom the Archives

Bay Area delis and Jewish markets of yore — gone but not forgotten

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 23, 2022May 24, 2022
Students enjoying a UC Berkeley Hillel event in 2019. (Photo/File)
Posted inBay Area

Campus news: Funding boost for Berkeley Hillel, Israeli scholar at Stanford as visiting fellow

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 18, 2022May 18, 2022
This ad appeared in the Jewish Bulletin (this publication's previous name) in 1976.
Posted inFrom the Archives

What rabbis said about abortion in our paper in 1975

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 10, 2022
Claire Lipschultz's mother, pictured  around  the time that her own mother almost died from an illegal abortion.
Posted inBay Area

Q&A: How abortion laws shaped three generations of this family

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 10, 2022May 10, 2022
Supporters of abortion rights rally outside the Supreme Court while the Dobbs case is being heard.
(Photo/Courtesy Religious Action Center)
Posted inNorthern California

Bay Area Jewish politicians outraged after Supreme Court’s abortion reversal leak

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 4, 2022May 4, 2022
This ad for the El Al, the Israeli national airline, that appeared in the Jewish Bulletin (this publication's former name) in 1953.
Posted inJewish Life

How we covered Israeli independence 74 years ago, when local support was less than complete

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 4, 2022May 4, 2022
(Graphic/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inTech

Israeli ‘unicorns’ — startups worth at least $1 billion — gallop to success in Bay Area

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 3, 2022May 6, 2022
The Gravlabs menorah bong was the impetus for the exhibit on Jews and cannabis. (Photo/YIVO Archives)
Posted inBay Area

‘Am Yisrael High’: Jewish cannabis connection examined in Berkeley

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 29, 2022April 29, 2022
Rabbis and cantors from the U.S. took supplies on a trip to see how the JCC in Krakow is responding to the humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.
Posted inBay Area

‘It’s a privilege’: Bay Area rabbis in Poland bear witness to Ukrainian refugee crisis

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 21, 2022April 27, 2022
The library at Fresno State University was until recently named for Henry Maddden, an unrelentingly antisemitic former Fresno State librarian. (Photo/file)
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Fresno State report sheds light on librarian’s Nazi views

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 20, 2022April 20, 2022

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