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Yavneh Day School teacher Jenessa Schwartz's third-grade daughter Ramona at Yavneh's all-school tefillah. (Photo/Courtesy Jenessa Schwartz)
Posted inEducation

Jewish schools making the grade with distance learning

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 27, 2020April 27, 2020
Zack Bodner, CEO of Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, made the difficult decision to close his organization's facility in March. (Photo/Courtesy OFJCC)
Posted inBay Area

How local Jewish community leaders are navigating the unknown

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn April 23, 2020April 24, 2020
Disability rights activists Denise Sherer Jacobson and Neil Jacobson, subjects of "Crip Camp," in their early 20s. (Photo/Courtesy Netflix)
Posted inCulture, Film, TV & Film

‘Crip Camp’: disability rights activists and their summer of love

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat April 23, 2020April 27, 2020
Yossi Fendel with his wife Tamar Fendel and their children (from left to right) Shoshana, Ari and Amir in Skagway, Alaska (Photo/Yossi Fendel)
Posted inFirst Person

A brutal lesson of perseverance for our kids — and us, too

Yossi Fendel by Yossi Fendel April 22, 2020
From the cover of "Growing up Below Sea Level: A Kibbutz Childhood" by Rachel Biale
Posted inBooks

Rachel Biale’s new memoir looks at growing up on a kibbutz in Israel’s early days

by Jonathan Kirsch April 21, 2020May 11, 2020
Instead of her planned bat mitzvah Torah service, Raizel Mahgel-Friedman will have a "Torah learning" ceremony streamed on Zoom on April 24. (Photo/Courtesy Nell Mahgel-Friedman)
Posted inReligion

Orthodox Jews find creative workarounds for b’nai mitzvahs during pandemic

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 21, 2020April 22, 2020
Jesse Bloom leading a workshop in 2016. (Photo/Stephen Flynn)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

For local Jewish food businesses, necessity is the mother of reinvention

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 20, 2020April 25, 2020
Eli Wirtschafter (right) and father Josh in their family’s “Fiddler on the Roof” coronavirus parody video. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inMusic

‘Separatiooooon!’ — East Bay family’s ‘Fiddler’ coronavirus parody goes viral

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky April 15, 2020April 15, 2020
Yoav Potash (second from right) directs a reenactment scene for his forthcoming documentary "Diary from the Ashes." (CIRRUS WOOD)
Posted inTV & Film

Prestigious NEH grant for local film on teen’s Holocaust diary

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 14, 2020April 14, 2020
The Northern District of California's Oakland location. Inset: Ross Farca. (Concord Police Department, Google Maps)
Posted inNews

Ross Farca pleads guilty to federal charge, sentencing hearing set

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 10, 2020

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