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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.

Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum (right) speaks as JIMENA Executive Director Sarah Levin looks on at Congregation Beth Sholom in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2024. (Frederic Aube)
Posted inBay Area

Mizrahi Jews balance pride with reality of Israel’s ‘glass ceiling,’ says Israeli envoy in S.F.

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 22, 2024November 22, 2024
Former Lyft driver Csaba John Csukás shortly after refusing service to and punching a Jewish passenger. (File)
Posted inNews

Ex-Lyft driver acquitted of hate crime for punching Israeli Jewish passenger in head at SFO

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 4, 2024November 4, 2024
a woman playing violin and a man playing accordion on stage
Posted inMusic

Paintings and ‘Music of the Holocaust’ concert will mark Kristallnacht in East Bay

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 1, 2024November 1, 2024
a building with a sign that reads "University Preparatory Academy"
Posted inBay Area

Jewish family sues San Jose school, alleging failure to address daughter’s harassment

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi October 29, 2024October 31, 2024
Outside a pumpkin carving event held by State Sen. Scott Wiener, a protester holds up a sign that reads "Scott Wiener is a lonely white supremacist." (Screenshot via @SFJCRC on X)
Posted inBay Area

Wiener’s family pumpkin carving event marred by two groups of protesters

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi October 28, 2024October 29, 2024
Haaretz journalist Lee Yaron is the author of "10/7"
Posted inBooks

Haaretz journalist’s book brings ‘first person’ immediacy to accounts of Oct. 7

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi October 22, 2024November 21, 2024
A screenshot from video captured at the scene shows a masked man holding the flag as it smolders.
Posted inBay Area

Hayward man who confessed to swiping and burning an Israeli flag is sentenced for hate crime

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi October 22, 2024October 22, 2024
a man smiles as he gazes up at the rafters of an unusually angled sukkah
Posted inBay Area

Three design teams erect unique sukkahs for competition at Urban Adamah

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi October 16, 2024October 18, 2024
Gov. Gavin Newsom announcing the formation of a Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, Oct. 2021 (Courtesy Office of the Governor)
Posted inPolitics

Newsom signs bills on Jewish student safety, Holocaust education, religious bias, ‘hate littering’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi October 11, 2024October 11, 2024
She stands hunched over fabric
Posted inBay Area

Bringing comfort to Bay Area children in need, one cozy blanket at a time

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi October 1, 2024October 1, 2024

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