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Shoshana, Yossi and Dan Fendel will teach at the East Bay JCC's Tikkun Leyl Shavuot
Posted inReligion

Three generations pulling Shavuot all-nighter in Berkeley

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 6, 2019
Service with a smile: Ayal Amzel has been running Yali’s Café in Berkeley for two decades. (Photo/Alix Wall)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

20 years of Yali’s Café, a mom-and-pop UC Berkeley mainstay

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 6, 2019September 24, 2019
The S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund is making changes to its board.
Posted inHistory

What is a Jewish federation, anyway?

by J. Staff June 5, 2019
Sammy Miller and the Congregation will play at "Night Shift," a late-night Shavuot event in a Palo Alto shopping center, June 8, 2019.
Posted inShavuot

An eclectic Shavuot all-nighter in a Palo Alto shopping center

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 5, 2019June 5, 2019
Activist and writer Michael Petrelis was one of many... uh, colorful characters on parade at the California Democratic Party convention in at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, May 31-June 2, 2019. (Photo/Dan Pine)
Posted inNews

Candidates and other colorful characters at the California Dems’ convention

by Dan Pine June 4, 2019June 4, 2019
Staff changes at Urban Adamah (from left): Adam Weisberg, a founding board member, is the new incoming executive director; Ayelet Krieger will continue as associate executive director; and Adam Berman, founder and current executive director, is the incoming president, a new top position at the organization.
Posted inNews

Leadership changes at Urban Adamah, as founder steps into new top role

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman June 3, 2019June 10, 2019
Site-specific art created by Maya Gelfman and Roie Avidan between 2017-2019 as the artists journeyed across the United States, interacting with a wide range of locations (Photo/Mind the Heart! Project)
Posted inArt

Israelis’ quirky site-specific art wanders through Bay Area

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 3, 2019June 3, 2019
The East Bay and S.F.-based Jewish federations were founded when the Bay Area was a less connected place. But things started change long ago, with the construction of the Bay Bridge, seen here taking shape in 1935.
Posted inOpinion

Why we’re working together for a stronger Jewish Bay Area

Danny GrossmanLisa TabakRabbi Andrew Kastner by Danny Grossman, Lisa Tabak and Rabbi Andrew Kastner June 3, 2019May 31, 2019
A Jewish attendee of the California Democratic Party's state convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, May 31, 2019 (Photo/Dan Pine)
Posted inNews

At state convention, California Dems reject anti-Israel language in resolutions

by Dan Pine June 1, 2019June 3, 2019
Rishik Gandhasri of San Jose aced two Jewish terms — yiddishkeit and keriah — in the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Posted inJewish Life

This San Jose 7th-grader won the National Spelling Bee with Yiddish and Hebrew

Lior Zaltzman by JTA and Lior Zaltzman May 31, 2019June 3, 2019

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