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Rebecca Handler's first novel is "Edie Richter is Not Alone." (Photo/Kristen Sard)
Posted inCulture

Rebecca Handler grieved for her father by writing a novel — and swimming in the bay

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett June 3, 2021June 9, 2021
A Feb. 3, 2020 UC Berkeley student union meeting where students debated a measure to remove a controversial anti-Israel display. (Photo/Sunny Shen-Daily Californian)
Posted inLocal Voice

Zionism. Indigenous. Occupation. Let’s define our terms.

Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman by Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman June 3, 2021June 3, 2021
Diane Wolf and son Max Hirtz-Wolf on the deck of their home in Berkeley. (Photo/Alix Wall)
Posted inBay Area

How this Jewish musician from Berkeley found a sense of belonging in Germany

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 3, 2021
Two antisemitic memes shared on Facebook and identified by the Anti-Defamation League.
Posted inTech

ADL says Facebook is allowing blatantly antisemitic posts

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 2, 2021June 3, 2021
The University Center at University of San Francisco. (Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inNews

Jewish USF student files complaint over email’s ‘delegitimization’ of Israel

by Gabriel Greschler June 2, 2021June 7, 2021
Gen Xia Ye Slosberg
Posted inBay Area, Education, Jewish Life, News

A Jewish-Asian college student grieves a lost senior year, and so much more

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA June 2, 2021June 2, 2021
A rendering of the greenhouse-like module headed to the International Space Station (left) and some hummus (right). (Illustration/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inFood, Bay Area, Jewish Life, News

Can you grow hummus on the moon? This Israeli at Stanford is going to find out.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 1, 2021
Sophia Salma Shramko is the first Israeli-Bedouin fashion model. She lives in Santa Clara with her husband and children.
Posted inOpinion

Thank you, Israel, from one of your Arab citizens

Sophia Salma Shramko by Sophia Salma Shramko June 1, 2021
Yosef Rosen teaching a senior seminar, Issues in Jewish Thought, at Jewish Community High School of the Bay in San Francisco. (Photo/Courtesy JCHS)
Posted inEducation

Graduation 2021: Socially distanced, but still together

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 28, 2021June 2, 2021
Aaron Alpert, in blue, leading an Israeli dance session at Palo Alto's Mitchell Park earlier this month. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
Posted inCulture

Outdoor Israeli dancing attracts young and old, Jewish and non-Jewish

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 27, 2021May 28, 2021

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