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Mark Rosen, who lost his Santa Rosa home  to the fires that tore through Northern California this week, speaking with Ellen Blustein, executive director of JCC Sonoma County, at a healing gathering at Congregation Beth Ami in Santa Rosa, Oct. 14, 2017. (Photo/Dan Pine)
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Gathering of prayer and healing at Santa Rosa shul

by Dan Pine October 15, 2017March 19, 2018
Remembering Camp Newman at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, Oct. 13, 2017 (Photo/Rob Gloster)
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Local shuls remember Camp Newman with songs and love

by Rob Gloster October 14, 2017March 19, 2018
Peninsula JCC volunteers delivering relief items to American Medical Response in San Mateo, Oct. 13, 2017 (Photo/Courtesy PJCC)
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From dog food to diapers: Bay Area JCCs mobilize to help fire victims

by Rob Gloster October 13, 2017March 19, 2018
Reb Irwin Keller leads Hebrew songs of healing at Bnai Israel Jewish Center in Petaluma, Oct. 11, 2017 (Photo/Liz Harris)
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North Bay Jews pray for healing — and then they dance

by Liz Harris October 13, 2017March 19, 2018
Shabbat services at URJ Camp Newman, summer 2017 (Photo/Courtesy URJ Camp Newman)
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Grieving Newman community finds camp spirit lives on in each other

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 12, 2017March 19, 2018
Danny Scheie as Ghost in “Imaginary Comforts, or The Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit” (Photo/Berkeley Repertory Theatre-Joel Dockendorf)
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Daniel Handler takes us down the rabbit hole in imaginative play

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 12, 2017March 23, 2018
Cal Tikvah co-president Adah Forer (left) and law student Olivia Wittels flank speaker Alan Dershowitz at U.C. Berkeley on Oct. 11, 2017. (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
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Dershowitz makes a ‘reasonable’ case for Israel at UC Berkeley

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 12, 2017October 13, 2017
Birgit Sacher, member of Santa Rosa's Congregation Shomrei Torah, comforts Nicholas and Zoe Miller who lost their home to wildfires, Oct. 11, 2017. (Photo/Norm Levin)
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Santa Rosa synagogue becomes hub for Jewish aid, shelter for bereft evacuees

by Dan Pine October 11, 2017March 19, 2018
Jake Olsan surveys the scant remains of his family's home in rural Sonoma County. (Photo/Courtesy Jeremy Olsan)
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Families tell of homes and memories lost in the flames

by Rob Gloster October 11, 2017March 19, 2018
The General Assembly is one of the largest annual gatherings of the organized Jewish world. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Federations of North America)
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Why big Jewish events need more women speakers, and how to make it happen

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz October 11, 2017

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