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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.

Wheatland Union High School District Superintendent Nicole Newman delivers a video message on Dec. 30, 2021, addressing a photo of students covered in swastikas that went viral on social media. (Screenshot)
Posted inNorthern California

Wheatland High takes ‘disciplinary action’ against students after swastika stunt

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 3, 2022January 4, 2022
Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland held its first indoor service in a year, March 14, 2021.
Posted inBay Area

Facing omicron spike, Bay Area synagogues weigh their options

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Emma Goss and Maya Mirsky December 30, 2021January 5, 2022
Memorial stolperstiene, or "stumbling blocks," are laid in front of a formerly Jewish home in Görlitz. (Photo/Courtesy Lauren Leiderman)
Posted inNews

Return to Görlitz: survivors’ descendants lay memorial stones in Germany

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 28, 2021December 29, 2021
Andy Samberg and Maya Rudolph are the hosts of "Baking It."
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Schlubby Adam Sandler couture blows up; Hanukkah takes over ‘Baking It’; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 21, 2021December 21, 2021
Israel's President Isaac Herzog speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations' leadership meeting in Jerusalem, Feb. 18, 2019, when he was chairman of the Jewish Agency. (Photo/JTA-Hadas Parush-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Israel’s president to Palo Alto students: Check out Hebrew TikTok

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 20, 2021December 21, 2021
Anti-Defamation CEO Jonathan Greenblatt (left) and Zahra Billoo, executive director of the San Francisco chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations. (Photos/File)
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

ADL spars with CAIR over local Muslim leader’s remarks on ‘polite Zionists’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 13, 2021December 13, 2021
As of today, there is more than enough cream cheese in the Bay Area. (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inJewish Life

Fear not: There is no cream cheese shortage in the Bay Area

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 7, 2021March 15, 2022
Alan Haim (left) and Cooper Hoffman in "Licorice Pizza"
Posted inCulture

Gabby Giffords has bat mitzvah; Jewish Grammy nominees; Haim goes to the movies; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 7, 2021December 8, 2021
Ava Sayaka Rosen's tarot cards on display at the LABAlive event, Nov. 7, 2021.
Posted inReligion

Pick a card, or let it pick you: Oakland artist Ava Sakaya Rosen’s Torah-inspired tarot deck 

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 3, 2021December 3, 2021
The Henry Madden Library is the third-largest library in the CSU system. (Photo/Cary Edmondson)
Posted inUncategorized, California

Fresno State University library named after Jew-hating librarian faces renaming

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 1, 2021December 3, 2021

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