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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.

Pink Challah Bake on Nov. 14 in Palo Alto to promote awareness of genetic mutations that raise cancer risks. (Sarah Felson)
Posted inBay Area

Women, girls think pink at Palo Alto Challah Bake

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 26, 2019November 26, 2019
Ariel Luckey speaks at a Nov. 18 "Jews on Ohlone Land" event at Urban Adamah in Berkeley. (Maya Mirsky)
Posted inUncategorized

East Bay Jews discuss what it means to live as Jews on Ohlone land

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 22, 2019November 25, 2019
A crowded event at Chabad at UC Berkeley (Chabad Jewish Student Center at Berkeley)
Posted inNews

UC Berkeley Chabad set to expand — upstairs

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 15, 2019November 18, 2019
Adam Swig and grandmother Roselyne "Cissie" Swig, take a selfie together at a Contemporary Jewish Museum event, 2016. (Cecile Hughes)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Partying and giving back — it’s the Adam Swig way

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 14, 2019November 18, 2019
Archival photo of 19th-century journalist Miriam Michelson
Posted inBooks

Rediscovering S.F.’s pioneering 19th-century ‘girl reporter’

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 5, 2019November 27, 2019
Entrance to the Home of Eternity cemetery in Oakland. (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inNews

Sinai Memorial takes over Oakland Jewish cemetery from Temple Sinai

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 25, 2019October 28, 2019
Fun with water balloons at Maccabi Sports Camp during summer 2019. (Courtesy JCC Maccabi Sports Camp)
Posted inBay Area, News, Sports

Maccabi sports camp merging with Palo Alto JCC

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 17, 2019
As an intern at Sinai Memorial Chapel in San Francisco, Jacob Isaacs created a digital map of historical Jewish sites around the city. (Photo/Courtesy Jacob Isaacs)
Posted inHistory

New digital map offers walking tours of San Francisco’s hidden Jewish history

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 16, 2019October 16, 2019
portrait of a middle-age blonde woman in a pink jacket
Posted inHealth

Learn more about BRCA gene, join a study — or do both

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 15, 2019
(From left) Broken down door to an office at Chochmat HaLev synagogue in Berkeley and a Berkeley Police officer taking fingerprints (Photo/Facebook)
Posted inBay Area, News

Burglary at Berkeley synagogue; $15,000 worth of goods stolen

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 10, 2019October 10, 2019

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