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Architect's rendering of Berkeley Moshav
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Berkeley Moshav has design, now seeks members for Jewish co-housing project 

by Sue Fishkoff January 4, 2022January 4, 2022
(From left) Nancy Federman, Chris Witzel and Diane Rolfe prepare postcard kits for distribution in the spring.
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Beth Am group thinks ‘fast’ in push for voting rights

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 4, 2022
Wheatland Union High School District Superintendent Nicole Newman delivers a video message on Dec. 30, 2021, addressing a photo of students covered in swastikas that went viral on social media. (Screenshot)
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Wheatland High takes ‘disciplinary action’ against students after swastika stunt

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 3, 2022January 4, 2022
Eli Wirtschafter with mother Diane (left) and father Josh (right) in "Another Seder on the Zoom." (Screenshot/YouTube)
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What you read this year: Our top 10 most popular stories of 2021

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 30, 2021January 5, 2022
Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland held its first indoor service in a year, March 14, 2021.
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Facing omicron spike, Bay Area synagogues weigh their options

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Emma Goss and Maya Mirsky December 30, 2021January 5, 2022
Man hiding his face
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Police arrest man after Aryan Nations flyer drops in Carmichael

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman December 29, 2021
Art projects are one way Yom Rishon School brings Jewish studies alive. (Photo/Sue Fishkoff)
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In Palo Alto, a ‘first day’ of Jewish education — in Russian

by Sue Fishkoff December 29, 2021December 29, 2021
Memorial stolperstiene, or "stumbling blocks," are laid in front of a formerly Jewish home in Görlitz. (Photo/Courtesy Lauren Leiderman)
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Return to Görlitz: survivors’ descendants lay memorial stones in Germany

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 28, 2021December 29, 2021
Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld surveys the damage at the Chabad House in south San Jose, Dec. 2021. (Photo/Emma Goss)
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Fire destroys new Chabad synagogue in San Jose, spares Torahs

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss December 23, 2021January 5, 2022
Reese Lichtenstein and her grandmother, taken shortly before Irene Wolff’s death in January 2020. Reese has her grandmother’s image tattooed on her forearm. (Photo/Petal and Stone-Nan Patriquin); Part of the porcelain set kept by the Moritz family in Germany.
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From Germany to America: A family’s legacy, preserved in porcelain

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 23, 2021February 1, 2022

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