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Ryan Torok

Ryan Torok is a freelance writer based in California.

President Donald Trump attends a briefing about Hurricane Dorian at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C., Sept. 1, 2019. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead via Flickr)
Posted inNorthern California

State grants $5.6M for security to Northern California Jewish orgs, amid freeze on FEMA funds

by Ryan Torok March 31, 2025April 2, 2025

The state of California has awarded $76 million in grants to bolster security to nonprofits at “high risk for violent attack and hate crimes,” including nearly $5.66 million to 27 […]

Holocaust survivor and students
Posted inEducation

Bill aims to increase oversight, offer grants for Holocaust education in California

by Ryan Torok February 26, 2025February 26, 2025
Virtual memorial plaques are projected on the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Marcin Kozlowski-March of the Living)
Posted inEducation

State study on K-12 Holocaust education finds much is left to teachers’ ‘individual initiative’

by Ryan Torok January 31, 2025January 31, 2025
a small photo of Miriam and Brachie inset within a larger photo of a giraffe standing near a very tall mountain
Posted inBay Area

Why a mother-daughter team from Chabad Berkeley are going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro

by Ryan Torok October 25, 2024October 25, 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

State bills focusing on antisemitism and Holocaust education training await Newsom’s signature

by Ryan Torok September 20, 2024September 20, 2024
Twenty-six people have been charged for their involvement in April’s Golden Gate Bridge protest over the Israel-Hamas war. (@oil_action/X)
Posted inBay Area

Felony charges for pro-Palestinian activists who shut down Golden Gate Bridge

by Ryan Torok August 13, 2024August 22, 2024
Attendees of a recent Sac Bad Jews event at Alaro Craft Brewery in Sacramento. (Screenshot via Instagram)
Posted inNorthern California

‘Bad Jews’ grows, bringing their irreverent vibe to Sacramento

by Ryan Torok July 31, 2024July 31, 2024
Jews march in S.F. Pride Parade
Posted inBay Area

JCRC Bay Area’s leader expects ‘disruptions’ at S.F. Pride Parade over Gaza

by Ryan Torok June 17, 2024June 18, 2024
Yehuda Kurtzer (left), president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, speaks alongside Ken Bamberger, a Cal law professor and faculty co-director of the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, at UC Berkeley on April 4. (Photo/Courtesy Laura Turbow)
Posted inBay Area

UC Berkeley undergrads can add an Israel studies minor starting this fall

by Ryan Torok June 11, 2024June 11, 2024
Red paint splattered on the ground outside the venue. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inBay Area

Red paint tossed at guests attending Oakland event on Jewish identity

by Ryan Torok May 17, 2024May 21, 2024

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