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Beth Lee, AKA the "brisket maven," says she's found the most inexpensive brisket at Costco. (Photo/Courtesy Lee)
Posted inBay Area

How much will your Rosh Hashanah brisket cost this year?

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss August 30, 2022September 5, 2022
Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of UC Berkeley Law. (Photo/File)
Posted inLocal Voice

Dean of Berkeley Law: Don’t generalize about BDS on campus

Erwin Chemerinsky by Erwin Chemerinsky August 29, 2022August 31, 2022
The Sather Gate on the UC Berkeley campus. (Photo/Tristan Harward via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBay Area

Several Berkeley Law student groups adopt ‘no Zionist speakers’ rule

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 26, 2022December 21, 2022
A Shabbat service at Urban Adamah in 2017. (Photo/File)
Posted inMusic

Berkeley Jewish music retreat will be ‘a mini university’

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 22, 2022August 26, 2022
Background illustration by Josh Baum, from "Malkah's Notebook"
Posted inAuthor! Author!

Children’s books by local Jewish authors educate and delight

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 19, 2022July 23, 2024
Ruth Temkim (left) and Sandy Pospisil pack meals for the HaMotzi food assistance program at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, Aug. 7, 2022. (Photo/Samantha Laurey)
Posted inJewish Life

At many Bay Area synagogues, the real action is social action

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene August 18, 2022August 19, 2022
An Edah program in 2019 (Photo/File)
Posted inEducation

Merger streamlines two East Bay after-school programs

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene August 17, 2022
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, the founder of Ms. Magazine and author, most recently, of "Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy," will kick off the "Go Read It!" series. (Photo/File)
Posted inBooks

‘Go Read It!’ Free virtual Contra Costa author series kicks off Sept. 1 

by J. Staff August 17, 2022August 17, 2022
Shira Potash (right) and her mother Helen Seligmann Hordes in front of their family's former home in Ronnenberg, Germany. (Photo/Stephanie Cimino)
Posted inNews

Her family’s old house has become a poignant memorial to a German town’s Jewish past

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 16, 2022August 17, 2022
"Joyful Shabbat" is one of 17 pieces in Beth Bourland's "Journey to Judaism" exhibit.
Posted inCulture

Artist Beth Bourland chronicles her conversion to Judaism in striking watercolors and collages

by Liz Harris August 16, 2022August 17, 2022

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