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

Niva Ashkenazi

Niva Ashkenazi is a J. staff writer through the California Local News Fellowship.

Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protesters in the Bay Area at times use violent rhetoric. “Intifada” and an upside-down red triangle representing Hamas were spray-painted on a mailbox at UC Berkeley in May 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

D.C. killing of Israeli embassy staffers refocuses attention on Bay Area extremism

Gabe StutmanNiva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Gabe Stutman and Niva Ashkenazi May 22, 2025May 27, 2025
Pro-Palestinian teachers in Oakland organized themselves early in the ongoing war. Here, a banner reads "Oakland Educators Say Fund Education, Not War on Gaza" at an Oakland Unified School District meeting on Nov. 9, 2023. (Photo/Courtesy anonymous)
Posted inBay Area

Oakland schools decline to discipline staff over 2023 pro-Palestinian teach-in

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi May 20, 2025November 5, 2025
Miss Gefilte Fish, also known as Noah Zweben, tries on polarized glasses that make lights look like Stars of David during Value Culture’s Jewish American Heritage Month kickoff event at the California Academy of Sciences, May 15, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inCulture

S.F. Jewish Week kicks off at Cal Academy with henna, rap, an aerialist — and pickle juice

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi May 16, 2025May 19, 2025
Redwood High School  is one of several high schools in the Tamalpais Union High School District. (ResearcherQ via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inEducation

Marin teacher told class there were ‘too many Jews’ in the district

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi May 15, 2025May 19, 2025
JPAC executive director David Bocarsly addresses attendees of the JPAC summit at the Sheraton Grand hotel in Sacramento on May 5, 2025. (Camden Hosea-Small/JPAC)
Posted inCalifornia

Ethnic studies dominates Jewish lobbying summit in Sacramento

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi May 7, 2025May 7, 2025
Around 20 pro-Palestinian students hold a press conference about USF divesting from weapons manufacturers at the University of San Francisco on Thursday, May 1, 2025. (Screenshot via Instagram/usfcastudents4palestine)
Posted inBay Area

USF divests from defense firms, but says it’s unrelated to Israel

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)Gabe Stutman by Niva Ashkenazi and Gabe Stutman May 2, 2025May 6, 2025
Eight Holocaust survivors, sitting in the front row of the audience at the Yom HaShoah event on April 23, 2025, watch a short film where Holocaust survivors, liberators and their descendants speak about their experiences. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Hundreds pay respects as local Holocaust survivors are honored on Yom HaShoah

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi April 24, 2025April 25, 2025
Graffiti reading "Martyrs never die" and "Zionism is Nazism" was found inside a vacant building owned by UC Berkeley that was taken over by protesters in May 2024. (Photo/Courtesy JCRC)
Posted inNorthern California

ADL: Antisemitic incidents in Northern California remained high in 2024

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi April 23, 2025April 25, 2025
Man speaks at podium
Posted inPolitics

Ethnic studies bill in state legislature will be a fight, says JPAC director

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi April 21, 2025April 21, 2025
A woman wearing a hijab and a woman in a light pink blazer sit on a stage, reaching out to hold each other's hands
Posted inIdeas

Some bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families still seek peace — even after Oct. 7

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi April 14, 2025September 25, 2025

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