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Rabbi Yonatan and Freyda Cohen
Posted inNews

It’s official: This Berkeley rabbi’s home is a ‘place of belonging’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 14, 2019March 21, 2019
Susanne (Sanne) Kalter DeWitt’s debut memoir is called “I Was Born in an Old Age Home.”
Posted inAuthor! Author!

Two vivid memoirs of Holocaust survival from local authors

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 12, 2019
Amit Vigoda playing in the European Wheelchair Basketball Champions League, February 2019
Posted inSports

How wheelchair basketball changed my son’s life

Zimra Vigoda by Zimra Vigoda March 12, 2019
Illustrator Lila Volkas has a love affair with kombucha.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Q&A: Why Berkeley culinary illustrator Lila Volkas loves kombucha

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 11, 2019September 24, 2019
Rae Levin, the perfect rebbetzin
Posted inFirst Person

The tragedy of my grandmother, born too early for the drugs she needed

Donna Levin by Donna Levin March 8, 2019
A scene from “The Unorthodox”
Posted inTV & Film

Birth of Shas party recounted with humor, heart in ‘The Unorthodox’

by Michael Fox March 6, 2019March 6, 2019
From the cover of "Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud" by Andrew Ramer
Posted inBooks

Exploring the remains of a Talmud from 160 years in the future

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 6, 2019June 25, 2019
Lauren Greis at a recent dinner at Chez Panisse (Photo/Thai Chu from "Alive by Shooting")
Posted inFood, Columns, Jewish Life, Organic Epicure

Dinner series has new name, same goal: food and justice for all

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 6, 2019September 24, 2019
Rabbi Gershon Albert, Flying Falafel owner Assaf Pashut, Rabbi Yonatan Cohen and Maharat Victoria Sutton show off Flying Falafel's new kosher certification.
Posted inFood

Free kosher certifying group launches in East Bay

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 5, 2019September 24, 2019
In one of the final photos posted to his Facebook page before his death in 2018, Stan Lee poses on a motorcycle with Captain America's iconic shield.
Posted inFilm

An afternoon out with Stan Lee and Captain America

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 5, 2019March 5, 2019

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