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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.

Christian Picciolini, a reformed neo-Nazi, will speak at Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas, Oct. 27-29, 2017
Posted inJewish Life

With reformed neo-Nazi, JCC East Bay heads for ‘Uncharted’ territory

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 18, 2017October 17, 2017
On last year's WEACT Israeli Women Entrepreneurs’ Mission to Silicon Valley, participants visited SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. (Photo/Harel Meri)
Posted inNews

Startup women from Israel get a taste of Silicon Valley

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 17, 2017October 21, 2017
ADL Director of Technology and Society Brittan Heller speaks at the ADL National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., May 2017 (Photo/Courtesy ADL)
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ADL to showcase fight against cyberhate at night of festive activism

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 16, 2017October 16, 2017
Shabbat services at URJ Camp Newman, summer 2017 (Photo/Courtesy URJ Camp Newman)
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Grieving Newman community finds camp spirit lives on in each other

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 12, 2017March 19, 2018
Cal Tikvah co-president Adah Forer (left) and law student Olivia Wittels flank speaker Alan Dershowitz at U.C. Berkeley on Oct. 11, 2017. (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
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Dershowitz makes a ‘reasonable’ case for Israel at UC Berkeley

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 12, 2017October 13, 2017
Dr. Gladys Monroy and Larry Marks visiting the Weizmann Institute along with other Bay Area funders in 2014
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Israel’s Weizmann Institute receives $6 million from Bay Area couple

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 10, 2017March 19, 2018
Smoke fills the air in this photo taken earlier today at a house in Santa Rosa. (Photo/Anna Wachtel)
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Families lose homes as fires rage in eight counties

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Dan Pine and Maya Mirsky October 9, 2017October 9, 2017
Rabbi Eric Weiss is one of the hosts of KPIX TV's "Mosaic."
Posted inCulture

Local Jewish topics get a wakeup call on TV’s ‘Mosaic’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 8, 2017March 23, 2018
Herschel (right, Richard Aiello) and Shmuel (Evan Sokol) in “The Unveiling” (Photo/A. Lerner)
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Holocaust survivor haunted by his past in new play

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 4, 2017March 23, 2018
Roger Grunwald rehearses for “The Obligation.” (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
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One man’s ‘Obligation’ to recount the painful truths of the Holocaust

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 2, 2017March 23, 2018

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