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The Gravlabs menorah bong was the impetus for the exhibit on Jews and cannabis. (Photo/YIVO Archives)
Posted inBay Area

‘Am Yisrael High’: Jewish cannabis connection examined in Berkeley

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 29, 2022April 29, 2022
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks while Rep. Brad Schneider looks on at a Yom HaShoah commemoration in the Capitol, April 27, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Office of Brad Schneider)
Posted inCalifornia

Pelosi joins Holocaust survivors in reading names of the murdered on Yom HaShoah

by Ron Kampeas and JTA April 28, 2022April 28, 2022
Bashir and his family reunited at Chabad of Fremont. (Photo/Bonnie Kellogg)
Posted inBay Area

Targeted by Taliban, Afghan refugee family finds home at Chabad of Fremont — and with the Jewish community

Jew,  Jewish,  J. The Jewish News of Northern California
Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 28, 2022
Don Heller and Anne Simon at a wedding in Israel earlier this month. (Photo/Courtesy Heller)
Posted inTravel

S.F. couple’s tourist nightmare: catching Covid instead of a flight out of Israel

by Judy Maltz April 27, 2022April 28, 2022
Graffiti on the wall of Manny’s café in San Francisco's Mission District, June 6, 2021. (Photo/Steven Buss)
Posted inBay Area

Antisemitic incidents at all-time high in 2021, ADL finds

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene April 27, 2022April 27, 2022
Boris Melamed, the president of the Los Angeles Association of Veterans of World War II, stands near his West Hollywood apartment. (Photo/Forward-Olga Grigoryants)
Posted inUncategorized

How to avoid conflict on Victory Day? Take away the microphone.

Olga Grigoryants by Olga Grigoryants and Forward April 27, 2022
Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren
Posted inNews

Michael Oren in Bay Area: Israeli neutrality on Ukraine ‘not tenable’

by Dan Pine April 26, 2022April 27, 2022
Downtown Tiburon (Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inBay Area

Tiburon town council passes antisemitism resolution

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene April 25, 2022April 27, 2022
Zvika Krieger, the new spiritual leader of Chochmat HaLev, has brought Jewish spirituality to many milieus — including leading Shabbat services at Burning Man in 2018. (Background photo/Sasha Juliard)
Posted inBay Area

Chochmat HaLev, Berkeley’s ‘graying’ Renewal synagogue, names Zvika Krieger new spiritual leader

by Dan Pine April 25, 2022April 25, 2022
Rabbis Ted Feldman (left) and Katie Mizrahi (right) are moving on from current posts, while Rabbi Amanda Russell (center) has been promoted.
Posted inBay Area

Rabbis on the move: departures and promotions across the Bay Area

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 22, 2022April 27, 2022

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