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Sam Schuchat
Posted inNews

Q&A: Environmentalist charged with protecting the California coastline

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller November 19, 2019
Shira Kammen (Courtesy  Kammen)
Posted inMusic

Centuries-old Sephardic music plus bawdy songs about Virgin Mary in area concerts

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 18, 2019November 20, 2019
A crowded event at Chabad at UC Berkeley (Chabad Jewish Student Center at Berkeley)
Posted inNews

UC Berkeley Chabad set to expand — upstairs

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 15, 2019November 18, 2019
Ross Farca speaking with an attorney outside Contra Costa Superior Court, Sept. 26, 2019. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inBay Area

Preliminary hearing set for Concord man accused of anti-Jewish threats

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman November 15, 2019November 15, 2019
“Unite” (1971) by Barbara Jones-Hugu, from the exhibit “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power”
Posted inArt & About

Revisiting 1968 at the de Young; art, booze and sacred words in East Bay

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 14, 2019November 13, 2019
(From left) J. board members Harmon Shragge and Jerry Yanowitz with Noah and Hope Alper, on a Sept. 24 cruise for stakeholders on both sides of the S.F.-East Bay federation consolidation.
(Courtesy S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Consolidation of East Bay and S.F. Federations going swimmingly on both sides

by Sue Fishkoff November 13, 2019January 28, 2020
Rabbi Tsipi Gabai is the leader of Congregation Zohar Yisrael, which held its monthly Friday night service in Berkeley, Nov. 8, 2019. (Courtesy Gabai)
Posted inColumns

I was in a strange, new world: Egalitarian Sephardi Shabbat

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky November 13, 2019November 13, 2019
The first issue of Sh'ma, First issue, Nov. 1970, was four-page bi-weekly journal. The last issue, Nov. 2019, was a monthly publication available online as a PDF.
Posted inCulture

Sh’ma, storied journal of ideas, is no more

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky November 11, 2019November 11, 2019
Rabbi Daniel Lehmann was inaugurated last month as the first non-Christian president of Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. (Courtesy GTU)
Posted inUncategorized

GTU’s new Jewish president on spiritual care in a time of division

Rabbi Daniel Lehmann by Rabbi Daniel Lehmann November 11, 2019November 12, 2019
Yeshivat Maharat students attend a graduation ceremony in New York, June 17, 2019. (JTA/Shulamit Seidler-Feller/Yeshivat Maharat)
Posted inReligion

New grants pay Orthodox synagogues to hire women as spiritual leaders

by JTA and J. Staff November 8, 2019November 8, 2019

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