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J. recipe columnist Micah Siva with her new book, "Nosh." (Photo/Courtesy Siva via Instagram)
Posted inRecipe

Brisket without meat and gefilte without fish in Micah Siva’s plant-focused ‘Nosh’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 9, 2024May 23, 2024
Yael Nidan Kirsht holds a poster of her brother-in-law, Yagev Buchshtab, one of the hostages held in Gaza, at a vigil commemorating six months since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel in Lafayette on Sunday, April 7, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inNews

East Bay overpass vigil brings attention to hostages at 6-month mark

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 8, 2024April 12, 2024
Yehuda Kurtzer (left), president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, speaks alongside Ken Bamberger, a Cal law professor and faculty co-director of the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, at UC Berkeley on April 4. (Photo/Courtesy Laura Turbow)
Posted inNews

American Judaism’s ‘golden age’ isn’t over yet, says Yehuda Kurtzer at UC Berkeley

by Sue Fishkoff April 8, 2024April 8, 2024
close up of a Berkeley sweatshirt with a yellow ribbon pin and a "Bring Them Home" dog tag worn over it
Posted inLocal Voice

In Berkeley and beyond, we can’t let antisemitism define our Jewishness

Rabbi Joshua Ladon by Rabbi Joshua Ladon April 2, 2024
Trump holding one of his new bibles. (Screenshot/EWTN)
Posted inLocal Voice

I translated the complete Hebrew Bible. Trump’s ‘USA Bible’ betrays its greatest asset

by Robert Alter March 29, 2024March 29, 2024
Women confront one another at a meeting
Posted inPolitics

‘We’re wiped out’: Hostility has overwhelmed Berkeley council meetings since Oct. 7

Aaron Levy-WolinsMaya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Aaron Levy-Wolins and Maya Mirsky March 27, 2024March 29, 2024
Clockwise from top left: Zack Gelof, Alex Bregman, Joc Pederson, Rowdy Tellez, Max Fried, Garrett Stubbs and Dean Kremer. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images; Design by Mollie Suss)
Posted inSports

All the Jewish MLB players to watch in 2024, including Zack Gelof of the A’s

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis March 27, 2024March 29, 2024
Anti Israel poster
Posted inEducation

Cal police release photos of five suspects from Feb. 26 ‘riot’ at UC Berkeley

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman March 26, 2024March 28, 2024
A complaint filed by the Brandeis Center and the ADL to the U.S. Department of Education alleges: "Teachers and staff at BHS organized, promoted, and participated in a demonstration calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war. The event took place on the school's theater steps during school hours on February 2, 2024." (Photo/Screenshot)
Posted inOpinion

The trickle-down effect: Antisemitism seeps into California’s K-12 schools

Rachel Lerman. (Photo/Courtesy) by Rachel Lerman March 25, 2024March 28, 2024
People walk in a march
Posted inPolitics

Jewish groups join 22-mile interfaith ‘pilgrimage’ in East Bay to call for cease-fire

by Sue Fishkoff March 25, 2024March 29, 2024

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