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Paul Canin, a retired architect and World War II veteran, at his floating home in the Berkeley Marina, May 11, 2023. This article was produced in partnership with Berkeleyside, which provided the photos. (Photo/Ximena Natera-Berkeleyside-CatchLight)
Posted inObituaries

With a brush made of his own hair, he painted to survive in a Nazi POW camp

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 24, 2024May 14, 2024
Trina Robbins (center) with Jan Duursema (left) and Carol Kalish on the "Women in Comics" panel at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con. (Photo/Alan Light CC BY 2.0)
Posted inObituaries

Trina Robbins, 85, the first woman to draw a full issue of ‘Wonder Woman’

by JTA and J. Staff April 24, 2024April 24, 2024
A protester holds a poster with a photo of 23-year-old  Hersh Goldberg-Polin as people gather with signs calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas since Oct. 7, during a rally in Tel Aviv, Oct. 28, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Jack Guez-AFP via Getty Images)
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Berkeley-born hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin seen alive in apparently recent video released by Hamas

by JTA April 24, 2024
Yossi Klein Halevi speaking April 15 at an event organized by UC Berkeley Law School’s Helen Diller Institute for Law and Jewish studies. (Photo/Jim Block)
Posted inNews

‘Internal unraveling’: Yossi Klein Halevi on Israel, Iran and American Jewry

Chanan Tigay by Chanan Tigay April 22, 2024April 29, 2024
A packed house sat to watch Marc Lamont Hill (left) debate Mosab Hassan Yousef (right) at Evans Hall at UC Berkeley on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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‘Son of Hamas’ and Al Jazeera host find little common ground at UC Berkeley

by Sue Fishkoff April 19, 2024April 19, 2024
Kara Yugoff (left) chats with Nila Rosen during a mob wife–themed mahjong pop-up at an Italian restaurant in San Francisco, March 13, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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‘Like poker night for women’: Younger generations are clicking with mahjong

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 18, 2024April 20, 2024
Five protesters inside a Google exec's office
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Google fires 28 workers after sit-in protest against Israel cloud contract

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 18, 2024
Jonathan Levin has been named the 13th president of Stanford. (Photo/Aubrie Pick)
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Stanford’s first Jewish president will inherit a tense climate

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 18, 2024April 18, 2024
Google employees protest the company's sale of technology to the Israeli government at an April 16 sit-in. (Photo/No Tech for Apartheid via X)
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Google employees placed on leave, arrested after hourslong sit-ins over Gaza

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 17, 2024April 18, 2024
Detail of an illustration from "The Awful Omen," A. J. Sass's contribution to the "On All Other Nights" anthology. (Illustration/Shannon Hochman)
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Oakland writer A. J. Sass uses the afikomen hunt to explore a nonbinary child’s hopes and anxieties

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 17, 2024May 2, 2024

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