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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.

Zoe Kravitz in "High Fidelity."
Posted inCulture

Maxwell the singing Jewish wrestler; Carole King up for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; Azealia Banks is (not) a Jew; etc.

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 26, 2021March 1, 2021
Marcella Campbell White, director of Be'chol Lashon, at a virtual ADL event, Feb. 18, 2021. (Screenshot/Zoom)
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New head of S.F. diversity agency: All hands on deck in fight for Jews of color

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 24, 2021February 24, 2021
Feinstein Elementary, named for the current U.S. senator and former San Francisco mayor, was slated for renaming under an SFUSD board plan. (Photo/Google Maps)
Posted inEducation

Renaming of SF schools suspended: Feinstein and Sutro safe for now

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 23, 2021
Students at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton look at art from the center in March 2020.
Posted inNews

In East Bay, traveling Holocaust ‘center’ uses art to tell story of the Shoah

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 22, 2021
Director Steven Spielberg speaks onstage during the Academy Awards, Feb. 9, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Spielberg wins Genesis Prize; Evan Rachel Wood details antisemitic abuse by ex Marilyn Manson; etc.

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 17, 2021February 17, 2021
Dr. Benjamin Pinsky is the director of Stanford Medicine’s Clinical Virology Laboratory. (Photo/Steve Fisch)
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Q&A: This Stanford doc hunts down Covid-19 variants in California

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 12, 2021February 13, 2021
Melissa Whitley and Cary Neiman, owners of Mazel Tov Farms.
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Mazel Tov Farms cannabis company is high on Jewish branding  

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 10, 2021February 14, 2021
UC Berkeley (Photo/file)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Jewish program at UC Berkeley gets $10m from Diller Foundation

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 9, 2021February 16, 2021
J. development associate Shauna Satnick zooming with her real-life boyfriend, Sam Dreyer. (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inJewish Life

Romance during the pandemic: Dating is out. Courtship is in.

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 5, 2021June 14, 2021
(Clockwise from top left) Lunar team members Davi Cheng, Jared Chiang-Zeizel, Jenni Rudolph and Gen Xia Ye Slosberg. (Photos/Facebook)
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Asian American Jews connect and share in ‘Lunar’ video series

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

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