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

“There is a moment of darkness here,” U.S. Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-San Jose) says during a JCRC event on Dec. 20, the seventh night of Hanukkah, at Congregation Shir Hadash in Los Gatos. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Elected officials join event condemning ‘human swastika’ at San Jose high school

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 22, 2025December 22, 2025
Noa Argamani, a former hostage in Gaza, tells her story at the OFJCC in Palo Alto on Dec. 16. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

‘If we give up, we just lose,’ former hostage Noa Argamani says in Bay Area

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 17, 2025December 18, 2025
Chabad of SF Rabbi Yosef Langer carries a torch with its flame flickering as San Francisco celebrates the first night of Hanukkah at Union Square on Dec. 14. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Security ramps up at Bay Area Hanukkah events in wake of Sydney massacre

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 15, 2025December 29, 2025
A version of this poster hung outside the classroom of a Montera Middle School teacher.
Posted inBay Area

State findings of antisemitic discrimination mount against Oakland school district

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 11, 2025December 18, 2025
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, who is also a cantor, performs "Over the Rainbow" at the end of her Dec. 3 event at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. (Courtesy JCCSF/Justin Halgren)
Posted inIdeas

In S.F., first Asian American rabbi describes how she found her ‘truest home’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 4, 2025December 5, 2025
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Wave of violent anti-Israel graffiti hits Albany

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 3, 2025December 3, 2025
Enikia Ford Morthel in Congress
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House committee to probe Berkeley schools over antisemitism allegations

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 25, 2025November 25, 2025
Pro-Israel demonstrators march across Stanford University in Palo Alto on May 12, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inBay Area

Stanford’s Israel studies program becomes permanent after three-year pilot

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 21, 2025January 6, 2026
Fred Brill
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Monthly ‘story slam’ in S.F. opens the door to ‘The Jew in You’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 20, 2025November 21, 2025
Each of around 1,200 folding chairs on UC Berkeley's Memorial Glade on Nov. 18 holds a photo of a person killed in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre or during captivity in Gaza. (Niva Ashkenazi/J. Staff)
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Trio of Israel-related events at UC Berkeley face protests but no disruptions

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 19, 2025November 19, 2025

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