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Rabbi Andy Kastner, interim executive director of the East Bay Federation, speaks at the 100th anniversary celebration of the federation, June 19, 2019. (Photo/Courtesy East Bay Federation)
Posted inNews

After 100 years, a warm, haimish goodbye to the East Bay Federation

by Sue Fishkoff June 24, 2019June 24, 2019
Mourners leave mementos across the street from the Chabad Community Center in Poway, April 29, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Gabrielle Birkner)
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

Concord man who threatened synagogue mass shooting freed on $125,000 bail

Marcy Oster by JTA and Marcy Oster June 18, 2019June 28, 2019
(From left) director Hannah Pearl Utt and Jen Tullock as sisters in a theatrical family in crisis in “Before You Know It” (Photo/Courtesy 1091 Media)
Posted inPride

Two films weave queer and Jewish themes at Frameline LGBTQ film fest

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 17, 2019
Mourners leave mementos across the street from the Chabad Community Center in Poway, April 29, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Gabrielle Birkner)
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

Concord man arrested after threatening synagogue mass shooting

Marcy Oster by JTA and Marcy Oster June 17, 2019June 17, 2019
Lindsay Gottlieb, shown after a college basketball game as UC Berkeley women's basketball coach on March 1, 2019, is joining the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. (Photo/JTA-Joseph Weiser-Icon Sportswire)
Posted inSports

Cavaliers hire Jewish former coach of UC Berkeley women’s basketball

by JTA and Bob Jacob June 13, 2019June 13, 2019
Jewlia Eisenberg leads a song at the JeWitch Collective’s “Song of Songs Seder Celebrating Queer Sexuality” in the yurt at Urban Adamah in Berkeley, May 19. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inJew in the Pew

Magic, sex and blessings at an unconventional seder in Berkeley

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky June 12, 2019June 14, 2019
Anne Brodofsky in Shanghai in the 1920s
Posted inHistory

Treasured letters recall Berkeley 99-year-old’s adventurous aunt

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 12, 2019
Dora Sorell, Holocaust survivor and popular educator on the Holocaust, passed away May 27, 2019.
Posted inObituaries

Survivor and Holocaust educator Dora Sorell of Berkeley dies at 98

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 11, 2019
Developmental and clinical psychologist Diane Ehrensaft
Posted inPride

Q&A: A gender expert who stands up for nonbinary youth

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller June 10, 2019
Rabbi Jill Perlman will take over as senior rabbi of Temple Isaiah in Lafayette in July, replacing interim rabbi Steven Chester, who has led Isaiah for a year following the retirement of longtime leader Rabbi Judy Shanks.
Posted inBay Area, News

New rabbi in East Bay has a thing for Temples Isaiah

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 7, 2019June 10, 2019

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