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At Gather restaurant in Berkeley, owner Eric Fenster is operating under the assumption that busy indoor scenes like this one won't be back for a long time. (Photo/Twitter-@GatherBerkeley)
Posted inColumns

After pandemic pause, Berkeley’s Gather restaurant returns with new plans

Alix Wall by Alix Wall October 28, 2020October 29, 2020
Asher Smiley (right), owner of Krav Maga Revolution in Petaluma. (Photo/Courtesy Asher Smiley)
Posted inNews

Krav Maga gyms practice a new kind of self-defense during pandemic

by Gabriel Greschler October 27, 2020October 27, 2020
Midnite Bagel is one of three new bagel operations that have popped up in the Bay Area in recent months.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Hallelujah, it’s raining bagels in the Bay Area

Alix Wall by Alix Wall October 26, 2020October 27, 2020
Rabbi Serena Eisenberg and Israel's then-Consul General Shlomi Kofman at the AJC Diplomats Seder at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, March 22, 2018. (Photo/AJC-Mariah Tiffany)
Posted inTech

35 years on, what does the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement mean to California?

Susanne T. Stirling by Susanne T. Stirling October 26, 2020October 26, 2020
Jerome Cobert on duty at the Berkeley Marina in 1999.
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: A Jewish former cop whose mother finally came around

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller October 26, 2020October 26, 2020
A student walks on the campus of Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. (Photo/Courtesy Foothill College)
Posted inNews

Students at Foothill College pass antisemitism resolution

by Gabriel Greschler October 23, 2020October 27, 2020
a Contra Costa County Sheriff car parked in front of a government office building
Posted inNews

Judge rules that Nazi-obsessed East Bay man must face trial

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 23, 2020October 27, 2020
headshot of a balding middle aged man
Posted inCalifornia

Adam Schiff says Republican leaders ‘amplify’ antisemitism targeted at him. He also wants to crack down on social media.

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 23, 2020October 23, 2020
Freddie Lee Smith aka Zachary RunningWolf occupying an oak tree in Berkeley in 2006. (Photo/Twitter)
Posted inNews

Berkeley man known to police charged with Oakland synagogue vandalism

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 22, 2020October 23, 2020
A panel from Bernard Zakheim's expansive WPA murals on medical history in UCSF's Toland Hall auditorium; Zakheim working on the mural in 1937. (Photos/UCSF Archives and Special Collections)
Posted inCulture

S.F. firm wins bid to remove historic Zakheim murals at UCSF

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 22, 2020October 27, 2020

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