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Ryan Torok

Ryan Torok is a freelance writer based in California.

Students at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School organized a bake sale to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees. (Photo/Courtesy Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School)
Posted inBay Area

Selling cupcakes (and more) for Ukraine at Hausner Jewish Day School

by Ryan Torok April 6, 2022April 13, 2022
Democratic Majority for Israel supporters at the 2019 California Democratic Party convention. (Photo/Courtesy DMFI)
Posted inNews

Jewish groups applaud CA Democratic Party platform’s wording on Israel

by Ryan Torok March 14, 2022March 16, 2022
Bird's eye view of Oakland plot
Posted inUncategorized

$41M purchase puts East Bay Jews on track for a new community hub

by Ryan Torok February 28, 2022March 2, 2022
Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld surveys the damage at the Chabad House in south San Jose, Dec. 2021. (Photo/Emma Goss)
Posted inNews

South Bay Chabad destroyed by fire receives support from Azerbaijan

by Ryan Torok February 15, 2022February 16, 2022
Granddaughter and grandfather Ronnie and Ariel Cohen. (Photo/Courtesy Friends of Israel Defense Forces)
Posted inNews

Survivor’s granddaughter from Livermore now a sergeant in Israeli army

by Ryan Torok January 26, 2022January 27, 2022
Gun control activist Loren Lieb (right) and her son, Josh Stepakoff, who survived a 1999 shooting at the North Valley Jewish Community Center.
Posted inUncategorized

Jewish activist and legislators line up behind state’s proposed new gun law 

by Ryan Torok January 18, 2022January 20, 2022
Andres Spokoiny at the opening plenary of the Z3 conference in Palo Alto, Dec. 5, 2021. (Photo/Saul Bromberger)
Posted inBay Area

‘Game on’ in Palo Alto at Z3 conference on Israel-diaspora relations 

by Ryan Torok December 6, 2021December 7, 2021
Weapons and equipment recovered by Campbell police during the arrest of Wesley Charles Martines.
Posted inNews

Peninsula man arrested with cache of weapons and antisemitic manifesto

by Ryan Torok and Forward July 20, 2021
Members of the Jewish community and their allies protest anti-Semitism at UCLA, Nov. 6, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Ronen Tivony-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inCalifornia

UCLA anti-Israel resolution reveals rift among Jewish students

by Ryan Torok and Forward March 16, 2021

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