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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.

The library at Fresno State University was until recently named for Henry Maddden, an unrelentingly antisemitic former Fresno State librarian. (Photo/file)
Posted inCalifornia

Fresno State report sheds light on librarian’s Nazi views

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 20, 2022April 20, 2022
Jacob Bockelmann takes a break from weightlifting training.
Posted inSports

Santa Rosa weightlifter Jacob Bockelmann headed for 2022 Maccabiah games

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 18, 2022April 18, 2022
Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger's April 1, 1898 column
Posted inFrom the Archives

In 1898, this newspaper declared the haggadah ‘literary nonsense’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 14, 2022
Sophia Zohar AKA Maimonides Nutz wearing some of her own line of apparel. (Photo/Ryan Boyd)
Posted inFashion

Artist ‘Maimonides Nutz’ spins Talmud into social media gold

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 7, 2022April 12, 2022
Chinese diplomat Feng Shan Ho, seen here in China in 1947, is one of many foreign diplomats who helped Jews escape the Holocaust.
Posted inBay Area

Righteous diplomats of the Holocaust honored in San Jose exhibit

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 31, 2022March 31, 2022
A 1949 announcement in this paper about Bat (or Bas) mitzvah classes
Posted inFrom the Archives

San Francisco’s first bat mitzvah in 1947 paved the way for others

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 29, 2022
Shelby Grossman of the Stanford Internet Observatory
Posted inTech

Q&A: How ‘fake news’ and disinformation fuel the war in Ukraine

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 24, 2022March 24, 2022
Jared Huffman, U.S. House member from California's 2nd Congressional District, surrounded by other speakers and officials at the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Relations Council's "Here I Am" event in Marin, March 23, 2022. (Photo/Twitter-@SFJCRC)
Posted inBay Area

‘Here I Am’: Marin officials, residents gather to denounce antisemitism

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 24, 2022
A line of people stand near the Ukraine border
Posted inNews

Hebrew Free Loan offers cash assistance to Bay Area residents with family in Ukraine

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 23, 2022March 23, 2022
Children on an evacuation train in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 11, 2022. (Photo/Fotoreserg via Depositphotos)
Posted inBay Area

Bay Area Ukrainians use their direct pipeline to aid home country

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 17, 2022March 29, 2022

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