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people sit smiling in a crowd as they take in a learning session
Posted inUncategorized

How a culture of volunteerism creates vibrant communities

Mila WichterEli Ovits by Mila Wichter and Eli Ovits March 14, 2019March 14, 2019
Perla Batalla with her mentor, Leonard Cohen. (Photo/Courtesy Perla Batalla)
Posted inMusic

Leonard Cohen’s backup singer to pay tribute to mentor in S.F.

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 14, 2019March 13, 2019
These kids at a 2016 Chabad of North Peninsula Purim party turned Purim glam into glam rock. Also: Harry Potter?
Posted inPurim

From Morocco to outer space, Purim events around the Bay Area

by J. Staff March 14, 2019March 15, 2019
a man walks on a rocky dirt road next to a small red-roofed house
Posted inBay Area

Airbnb case could set BDS precedent — one way or the other

by Rob Gloster March 13, 2019March 21, 2019
black and white photo of a police officer standing amid rubble inside
Posted inEducation

New class on U.S. Jewish communists, anarchists and socialists of the 20th century

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller March 13, 2019March 13, 2019
Ketubahs by Anna Abramzon for couples that lost theirs in recent Northern California wildfires
Posted inCulture

North Bay artist makes new ketubahs for survivors of natural disasters

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 13, 2019April 3, 2019
Debbie Findling speaking at a panel on abortion in the Jewish community at Jewish Community Library in San Francisco, March 10, 2019 (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inBay Area

Personal stories and ways forward in frank conversation on abortion

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 12, 2019
an older an with a mustache stands next to two large basketball trophies
Posted inSports

Warriors’ bling adds glitz to Hebrew Free Loan event

by Rob Gloster March 12, 2019March 21, 2019
Susanne (Sanne) Kalter DeWitt’s debut memoir is called “I Was Born in an Old Age Home.”
Posted inAuthor! Author!

Two vivid memoirs of Holocaust survival from local authors

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 12, 2019
Amit Vigoda playing in the European Wheelchair Basketball Champions League, February 2019
Posted inSports

How wheelchair basketball changed my son’s life

Zimra Vigoda by Zimra Vigoda March 12, 2019

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