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This Roam meal features a zucchini and onion haystack, a spicy fried chicken sandwich and a beer. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

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Maps in Oakland schools that axed Israel were discriminatory, state finds

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Posted inCulture

Daniel Naroditsky, Jewish chess grandmaster and Bay Area native, dies at 29

by Grace Gilson October 21, 2025October 21, 2025
Left: The original Temple Emanu-El, which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. Right: Portrait of Julie Rosewald from "A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches," 1893
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Rep. Ro Khanna speaks on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, April 11, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Tasos Katopodis-Getty for MoveOn.org)
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Rep. Ro Khanna says he supports Zionism in exclusive interview on Jewish issues

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