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Post-tashlich Shabbat service at the Peninsula JCC's Hamlin Garden, led by (from left) Cantor Doron Shapira, Rabbi Laurie Matzkin, musician Michael Battat and Rabbi Lisa Kingston.
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Kicking off 5783 with spirituality and community on the Peninsula

Rabbi Laurie Matzkin by Rabbi Laurie Matzkin October 26, 2022October 27, 2022
UC Berkeley (Photo/file)
Posted inLocal Voice

At Berkeley Law, Israel is trapped in the identity politics of the progressive left

Eugene Bardach by Eugene Bardach October 24, 2022October 24, 2022
Paula Kabalo, a visiting professor at UC Berkeley's Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies teaching a seminar.
Posted inLocal Voice

Silencing voices on Israel at Berkeley Law disadvantages all students

Rebecca Golbert by Rebecca Golbert October 20, 2022October 20, 2022
illustrative photo of rows of chairs in a synagogue
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Let’s make this the year we end paid High Holiday tickets

Rabbi Jeremy D. Sher by Rabbi Jeremy D. Sher October 11, 2022
Students enjoying a UC Berkeley Hillel event in 2019. (Photo/File)
Posted inUncategorized

UC Berkeley has many Jewish-filled ‘zones.’ If you want to support campus Jews, learn about them.

by Ron E. Hassner and Ethan B. Katz October 2, 2022October 2, 2022
An anti-Nazi protest in America, seen in "The U.S. and The Holocaust."
Posted inLocal Voice

Ken Burns’ Holocaust series reminds us we are an anti-immigrant nation

Miriam Zimmerman by Miriam Zimmerman September 20, 2022September 21, 2022
The exterior of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in the days after a white supremacist murdered 11 people during Shabbat services in October 2018.
(Still from "Repairing the World")
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A journalist’s prescient take on rise of antisemitism in U.S.

by Mitch Paradise September 19, 2022
Call him "Mr. Fun" — Dan Pine blissing out with his grandsons Chris (on lap) and Lucas.
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All those adages about being a grandparent? They’re true.

by Dan Pine September 9, 2022September 9, 2022
UC Berkeley (Photo/file)
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BDS measure at Berkeley Law hurts students, not Israel

Adam Pukier by Adam Pukier September 6, 2022
Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaking at the 125th anniversary of the first Zionist Congress, in the same ballroom where the original event took place. (Photo/Zack Bodner)
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At 125th anniversary of Zionism, looking forward to Zionism 3.0

Zack Bodner by Zack Bodner September 1, 2022

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