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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.

Anat Hoffman (center) with Rabbi Beth Singer (left) of San Francsico's Congregation Emanu-El at a monthly Women of the Wall service in Jerusalem
Posted inNews

Israeli religious freedom warrior Anat Hoffman coming to Bay Area

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 21, 2018September 20, 2018
The all-woman klezmer band Isle of Klezbos, coming this fall to the Sonoma State University Jewish Music Series (Photo/Angela Jimenez)
Posted inMusic

Again, Sonoma State asks: What is Jewish music?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 17, 2018
Raleigh Zwerin, who found out in 2015 that she and her sister had the BRCA mutation, will speak on a panel about the gene that affects one in 40 Ashkenazi Jews. Seen here with her mother-in-law, Lonnie Zwerin.
Posted inHealth

At S.F. synagogue: BRCA, cancer and Ashkenazi genetics

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 17, 2018September 17, 2018
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai, 1949. Second from left: fashion designer Ilie Wacs, who later cowrote a book about the Shanghai Jews. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ilie Wacs)
Posted inHistory

The last of the Shanghailanders, S.F.’s unique Holocaust refugee community

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 14, 2018June 26, 2019
Rabbi Zelig Golden, founding director of Wilderness Torah, clutches the organization‘s new Torah scroll, posing with the Wilderness Torah staff. (Photo/Julia Maryanska)
Posted inNews

Finally, a Torah for Wilderness Torah, thanks to dying synagogue

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 5, 2018September 5, 2018
JFCS Palliative Care Volunteer Lisa Frankel Wade (right) with her client Sonia Korn-Grimani (left) (Photo/courtesy JFCS
Posted inSeniors

Palliative care program seeks volunteers

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 28, 2018
Pleasanton-based Chabad of the Tri-Valley's Rabbi Raleigh Resnick
Posted inNews

Tri-Valley Chabad’s neighbors ready to end zoning dispute?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 23, 2018
James A. White has served 37 years of a life sentence — but parole may now be within his reach.
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Man in prison for life might get out — thanks, in part, to J.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 22, 2018August 22, 2018
Campers at Be’chol Lashon’s summer camp in 2016 (Photo/Courtesy Be’chol Lashon)
Posted inNews

Jewish organizations playing catch-up to racially diverse community

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 10, 2018August 20, 2018
Dr. David Zarrouk in the Medical Robotics Lab at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Photo/Dani Machlis)
Posted inTech

How this Israeli university is creating robotic life in the desert

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 26, 2018August 15, 2018

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