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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
A panel from the graphic novel "We Are Not Strangers" by Josh Tuininga, who will be among the speakers at the Jewish Arts & Bookfest.
Posted inBooks

Daniel Handler will headline inaugural Jewish book fest at the Magnes

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz April 23, 2025April 30, 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
Opening day at Poppy Bagels in Oakland's Temescal neighborhood, Feb. 1, 2022. (Lillian Ilsley-Greene/J. Staff)
Posted inSmall Bites

S.F. Jew out on ‘Top Chef’; Bagels in Chronicle’s top 100 restaurants

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 21, 2025April 21, 2025
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, in Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the Ode to Joy, on August 28, 2022. It was Tilson Thomas's last concert with the BSO, where he began his career in 1969, as its assistant conductor and pianist. (Hilary Scott/Courtesy Boston Symphony Orchestra).
Posted inMusic

Battling cancer, Michael Tilson Thomas prepares for his last concert

by Penny Schwartz April 21, 2025April 21, 2025
Offir Gutelzon in San Francisco rallies against proposed judicial changes during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the Bay Area in September 2023. (Courtesy Gili Getz)
Posted inBay Area

The Palo Alto expat who finds the threat to Israeli democracy ‘unXeptable’

by Sue Fishkoff April 17, 2025April 20, 2025
Anita Friedman (left) and Susan Lowenberg (right) at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Western Region Tribute Dinner on March 19, 2025 in Beverly Hills.(Courtesy)
Posted inOur Crowd

Happenings, honors, opportunities, comings and goings — April 2025

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 17, 2025April 17, 2025
From left, Marc Mazer, Susan Talon-Mazer, Rabbi Dan Goldblatt and Zoë Francesca Goldblatt of the AriYael Jewish Healing Center. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inReligion

A Bay Area Jewish healing center expands as it embraces mourning, celebration

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz April 15, 2025April 16, 2025
A 300-pound plaster sphinx head from Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 film "The Then Commandments," which was buried along with the rest of the set under the sand at Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes for almost a century. (Courtesy Dunes Center)
Posted inPassover

10 things to do with your kids during Passover in the Bay Area

by J. Staff April 15, 2025April 16, 2025
SF Pride Parade
Posted inLocal Voice

The government is trying to criminalize my existence — again 

Rabbi Eliana Kayelle by Rabbi Eliana Kayelle April 15, 2025April 17, 2025

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