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Posted inOpinion

How Cal faculty who support Israel boycott get it wrong

Kenneth WaltzerMiriam F. Elman by Kenneth Waltzer and Miriam F. Elman March 4, 2019March 4, 2019
Zdeněk Toman (played by Jiří Macháček) kept his Jewish identity secret in order to advance his career in postwar Prague. (Photo/Courtesy EBIJFF)
Posted inFilm

With Iron Curtain falling, secret Czech Jew played both sides

by Dan Pine March 4, 2019
Ilya Varga (left) with Maddy Winard and Olivia Rokhsar making babka in the Urban Adamah kitchen. (Photo/Lezak Shallat)
Posted inEducation

Bay Area teens go elbow-deep in Jewish cooking (and values)

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat March 1, 2019March 1, 2019
Joshua Coleman
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: He helps parents and estranged adult kids mend fences

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller March 1, 2019March 1, 2019
Ethiopian Jewish teenager Mina and her boyfriend Eli in ‘Fig Tree’
Posted inTV & Film

In ‘Fig Tree,’ an Ethiopian family uproots to settle in Israel

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 1, 2019
Elan Carr is an attorney, anti-terrorism expert, and proud Cal alum.
Posted inNews

New U.S. anti-Semitism envoy visits UC Berkeley, his alma mater

Melody Niv by Melody Niv February 28, 2019
Team Israel at the 2017 World Baseball Classic qualifier final in Brooklyn (Photo/Courtesy Menemsha Films)
Posted inFilm

Israel’s baseball underdogs who nearly won it all get documentary treatment

by Rob Gloster February 28, 2019March 1, 2019
Edith Sheffer
Posted inBooks

Two Bay Area scholars shortlisted for Lynton prize for American nonfiction

by J. Staff February 27, 2019March 6, 2019
When Avishai (Gidi Gov) dies the day before being awarded a Nobel Prize, his best friends conspire to hide the truth for just long enough in “Stockholm.” (Photo/Courtesy EBIJFF)
Posted inTV

Friendship calls from beyond the grave in Israeli TV comedy ‘Stockholm’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 27, 2019February 27, 2019
Rabbi David Kasher, founder of Kevah, will be back in the Bay Area as one of the teachers of the Pardes fellowship
Posted inEducation

Israel’s Pardes brings fellowship for teachers of Torah to Bay Area

by J. Staff February 26, 2019

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