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Michael Kohn

Michael Kohn

Michael Kohn is a Bay Area-based freelance reporter and has written about Israel for Lonely Planet.

Rabbi Benay Lappe leading a May 22-23 SVARA workshop at Palo Alto JCC (Photo/Michael Kohn)
Posted inJewish Life

Chicago rabbi in Palo Alto: ‘Queer lens’ on Talmud could revitalize faith

Michael Kohn by Michael Kohn May 29, 2018May 29, 2018

“Queer Talmud Nerd.” Those three words on the cover of a welcome pack greeted a couple of dozen folks last week at an offbeat Talmud study workshop in Palo Alto. […]

Minister Salem Ben Nasser Al-Ismaily, a CEO in Oman, with Susan and Moses Libitzky
Posted inNews

Bay Area Jews travel on official trip to 3 Arab nations

Michael Kohn by Michael Kohn January 16, 2018March 19, 2018
Israeli-born Palestinian Ulfat Haider is the program director of the Beit HaGefen Center. (Photo/Courtesy Beit HaGefen)
Posted inNews

Meet the Jewish-Arab team that pitches coexistence in Israel

Michael Kohn by Michael Kohn November 13, 2017November 13, 2017
Keren Hovav (right) and Naomi Lieberman, participants in the Masa Israel Teaching Fellows program, teach English in a Rehovot elementary school.
Posted inJewish Life

This young Bay Area woman found purpose among poor Israeli school children

Michael Kohn by Michael Kohn September 13, 2017September 15, 2017

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