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Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)

Niva Ashkenazi

Niva Ashkenazi is J.’s reporter focusing on the East Bay and Yolo, Sacramento and San Joaquin counties, through the California Local News Fellowship.

During a talk at Congregation Emanuel-El in San Francisco on March 5, Israeli law professor Ruth Halperin-Kaddari discusses the efforts to establish the facts about the sexual assaults on Oct. 7, 2023. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inIsrael

Israeli legal expert keeps working to give a voice to Oct. 7 rape victims

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi March 7, 2025March 10, 2025
Chai Cycle, a group of local Jews who bike around the Bay Area and break for learning Torah and Talmud, put their branded water bottles together outside the Orinda BART Station on Feb. 23, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Tour de Torah? East Bay Jewish cycling group looks to expand its radius

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi February 27, 2025February 27, 2025
Matthew Finkelstein grieves during a Feb. 23 memorial service held in San Francisco for the Bibas family members and Oded Lifshitz. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Across Bay Area, hundreds share heartbreak over Bibas family and Oded Lifshitz

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)Aaron Levy-Wolins by Niva Ashkenazi and Aaron Levy-Wolins February 24, 2025February 27, 2025
Stock photo shows a closeup of a pregnant woman's belly under a beige dress. her arm and the arm of a man standing next to her cradle her belly.
Posted inBay Area

Hasidah, Bay Area Jewish nonprofit whose IVF grants led to 60 babies, is winding down

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Niva Ashkenazi and Lea Loeb February 20, 2025February 27, 2025
A Muni train travels through San Francisco's West Portal station on Feb. 12, 2025. (Sue Barnett/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Two Muni workers allege antisemitic harassment, retaliation at S.F. transit agency

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi February 12, 2025February 12, 2025
Rabbi Mychal Copeland has been the spiritual leader of Congregation Sha'ar Zahav since July 2017. (Norm Levin/Special to J.)
Posted inBay Area

Event series at Sha’ar Zahav will address fears about new Trump administration

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi February 7, 2025February 7, 2025
Valerie McGee and Annie McGee, daughter and grand-daughter of a Holocaust survivor, reach out to kiss the rescued Torah scroll held by Rabbi Alan Rabishaw at Temple Or Rishon in Orangevale on Feb. 2, 2025. (Courtesy Len Feldman)
Posted inBay Area

Holocaust Torah brought ‘back to life’ at Sacramento-area Or Rishon

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi February 6, 2025February 6, 2025
Nancy Grand has promised $2.5 million toward SF Hillel's new building, seen in this artist's rendering. (Herman Coliver Locus Architecture via SF Hillel)
Posted inBay Area

$2.5 million pledge pushes SF Hillel capital campaign into final stretch

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi January 30, 2025January 31, 2025
Writer Adam Gopnik spoke at JCCSF recently. (Brigitte Lacombe)
Posted inHistory

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik on where Jews thrive best: Cities

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi January 27, 2025January 27, 2025
Detail from a page of "Miri's Moving Day"
Posted inBooks

‘Can I be both Chinese and Jewish?’ Children’s book unpacks a young girl’s identity

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi January 24, 2025January 24, 2025

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