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Smitten Ice Cream reopened on Nov. 21, a month after vandals broke the windows and left pro-Palestinian graffiti. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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Vandalized Jewish-owned Smitten Ice Cream reopens with gratitude

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb November 24, 2023November 24, 2023
A Berkeley city council meeting to discuss zoning issues was thwarted by protesters. (Photo/Flickr-Berkeley Lab)
Posted inNews

Protesters disrupt another Berkeley council meeting over Israel and Gaza

by J. Staff November 24, 2023November 23, 2023
Willie "The Lion" Smith in his apartment in Manhattan, ca. January 1947. (Photo/William P. Gottlieb-Library of Congress)
Posted inMusic

Remembering Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith, one of jazz’s first Jewish stars

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert November 22, 2023November 22, 2023
Wilderness Torah's signature annual event, Passover in the Desert, drew its biggest crowd yet to the Mojave Desert, April 5-10, 2023. (Photo/Julia Maryanska)
Posted inBay Area

Wilderness Torah presses pause on flagship ‘Passover in the Desert’ event

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 22, 2023
The giant menorah in Union Square in San Francisco on the first night of Hanukkah, Dec. 10, 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inJewish Life

Light in the darkness: Public menorah lightings around the Bay Area

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb November 22, 2023December 7, 2023
Protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza hold a sit-in at the California Democratic Party convention in Sacramento, Nov. 18, 2023. (Photo/@SFBayResistance via X)
Posted inBay Area

Pro-Palestinian protests grind California Democratic Party convention to a halt

by Ryan Torok November 21, 2023November 22, 2023
Under Elon Musk, the social media platform X has been at the center of several antisemitism-related controversies. (Photo/JTA-Ludovic Marin-Pool-AFP via Getty Images; Design/JTA-Mollie Suss)
Posted inTech

Why ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt is praising Elon Musk as advertisers flee X over antisemitism

by Andrew Lapin November 21, 2023November 21, 2023
San Francisco artist Tiffany Shlain with her exhibit "Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring," which was on display in Washington on the National Mall in November 2023. (Courtesy)
Posted inOur Crowd

Honors, philanthropy, comings and goings — Nov. 2023

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb November 21, 2023November 27, 2023
Cantor Barbara Powell (left) and musician Saul Kaye lead a song at a multifaith gathering in solidarity with Peninsula Jews at St. Bartholomew's Church in San Mateo, Nov. 18, 2023. (Photo/Courtesy PJCC)
Posted inBay Area

At multifaith vigil, Peninsula leaders express solidarity with Jewish neighbors

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 20, 2023November 20, 2023
Oakland elementary school teacher Naomi Bernstein at a press conference at Montclair Elementary School, where parents, teachers and Jewish leaders spoke out against a statement on Gaza by the Oakland teachers union, Nov. 10, 2023. (Photo/Dan Ancona)
Posted inLetters

Half-baked politics at Arizmendi; Think locally, act locally; Blame Hamas; etc.

by J. Readers November 20, 2023

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