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Lake Merritt in Oakland. (Flickr/Hitchster CC BY 2.0)
Posted inFirst Person

How did we get from ‘Rabbi, I hate your sermons’ to ‘I’m sorry for your loss’?

Rabbi Shelley Waldenberg by Rabbi Shelley Waldenberg December 12, 2019December 17, 2019
Reb Irwin Keller
Posted inLocal Voice

My Irwin-ian ancestors: an amazing journey of tragedy and pride

Reb Irwin Keller by Rabbi Irwin Keller December 9, 2019December 17, 2019
Anastasia Torres-Gil (left) with her daughters Cassy (center) and Crystal (right). (Courtesy Torres-Gil)
Posted inFirst Person

My Jewish journey: What a long, strange trip it’s been

Anastasia Torres-Gil by Anastasia Torres-Gil November 25, 2019November 26, 2019
Gen Xia Ye Slosberg
Posted inFirst Person, Local Voice, Opinion

I’m no longer hesitant to say I’m ‘Chinese and Jewish’

Gen Xia Ye Slosberg by Gen Xia Ye Slosberg November 22, 2019November 22, 2019
Supporters of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party at a campaign rally in Szekesfehervar, April 6, 2018. (JTA/Laszlo Balogh/Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Xenophobia in Hungary: Is the past becoming the present?

Tom Weidlinger by Tom Weidlinger November 20, 2019November 20, 2019
A Rohingya refugee in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on the second anniversary of the Rohingya crisis. Aug. 25, 2019. (JTA/Allison Joyce/Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

As children of Holocaust survivors, the Rohingya genocide hits close to home

Susan LowenbergHoward Unger by Susan Lowenberg, Howard Unger and JTA November 13, 2019November 14, 2019
Terry Friedkin with five of her grandchildren. (Courtesy Friedkin)
Posted inFirst Person

Our community must not ignore fertility issues

Terry Friedkin by Terry Friedkin November 12, 2019November 13, 2019
Rabbi Daniel Lehmann was inaugurated last month as the first non-Christian president of Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. (Courtesy GTU)
Posted inUncategorized

GTU’s new Jewish president on spiritual care in a time of division

Rabbi Daniel Lehmann by Rabbi Daniel Lehmann November 11, 2019November 12, 2019
Conditions near Santa Rosa, Oct. 28, 2019. /Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department-Twitter
Posted inFirst Person

My dad’s escape from smoke-filled Sebastopol

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 29, 2019October 29, 2019
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Posted inParenting

A working parent’s Yom Kippur apology

by Shira Zemel and JTA October 7, 2019October 7, 2019

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