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Carl Laemmle (Photo/Courtesy East Bay International Jewish Film Festival)
Posted inFilm

Film pays tribute to moviemaking pioneer and wartime rescuer

by Dan Pine February 14, 2019
Opera singer and Yiddish song interpreter Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell will join the band Veretski Pass for the opening concert of the JCC East Bay winter/spring music series on Feb. 21. (Photo/Clara Rice Photography)
Posted inMusic

A harmonious marriage of Negro spirituals and Yiddish song

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller February 14, 2019
Grand Bakery's sesame seed bagels (Photo/Facebook-Grand Bakery)
Posted inColumns

Grand Bakery now in the bagel business; Metropolis no longer kosher; restaurant closings

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 13, 2019September 24, 2019
campus clock tower
Posted inPhilanthropy

Substantial new grant for Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies

by J. Staff February 8, 2019
The “1968 Room” at Art House Gallery and Cultural Center in Berkeley (Photo/Art House)
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: At his gallery, and in his heart, the ’60s live on

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 8, 2019June 6, 2022
Tomer Persico is a visiting professor at UC Berkeley and a Shalom Hartman Institute scholar-in-residence.
Posted inReligion

For Israeli scholar of New Age Judaism, there’s no place like Berkeley

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 1, 2019February 4, 2019
Théophile Joseph
Posted inHistory

Berkeley’s Théo Joseph, French Resistance fighter, dies at 98

Donna Rosenthal by Donna Rosenthal January 31, 2019January 31, 2019
From the cover of “Sara Berman’s Closet” by Maira Kalman and her son Alex
Posted inUncategorized

How our parents keep telling us who we are, even after they’re gone

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 30, 2019January 31, 2019
Cult Crackers co-owner Dianna Marguleas Dar with a batch of seed-filled crackers.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Berkeley moms’ seed-filled Swedish crackers have a ‘cult’ following

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 30, 2019September 24, 2019
Sapphire, age 27, originally from Israel, carried a sign at the 2019 San Francisco Women's March that said in Hebrew "justice, justice, I shall pursue," a paraphrase of a well-known biblical line. (Photo/Sue Barnett)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish identity rings out at Bay Area Women’s Marches

by Rob Gloster January 21, 2019January 23, 2019

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