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Cold brew coffee from Park Cafe; Proprietors Dana Oppenheim (left) and Rachel Herbert (right) with their son.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

These cafés have always sent people packing (to the park)

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 27, 2022March 15, 2022
Granddaughter and grandfather Ronnie and Ariel Cohen. (Photo/Courtesy Friends of Israel Defense Forces)
Posted inNews

Survivor’s granddaughter from Livermore now a sergeant in Israeli army

by Ryan Torok January 26, 2022January 27, 2022
(Meduyeket/James Conway/JTA Collage by Grace Yagel)
Posted inGames

Does Wordle have you ‘farblundget’? Try these Hebrew and Yiddish versions.

by Michelle Krasovitski and JTA January 25, 2022January 25, 2022
A sign of solidarity was placed in front of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas.(Photo/Forward-Haya Panjwani)
Posted inLocal Voice

I let an unhoused man into my synagogue before Colleyville. How will we respond next time?

Rabbi Joshua Ladon by Rabbi Joshua Ladon and JTA January 21, 2022January 24, 2022
Tobie Shapiro and her son, Meyshe Shapiro-Nygren, at home in Alameda. (Photo/Michael Fox)
Posted inNews

Jewish housing crisis: Aging parents fear for their special-needs kids

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 21, 2022January 21, 2022
Rolling in Gelt (left) and Sufganiyot ice cream from Bad Walter's Bootleg Ice Cream.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

A pint-size dog inspires Bad Walter’s big-flavor ice cream

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 20, 2022March 15, 2022
A Jewish student reads a statement in opposition to a resolution for a consulting contract between the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Coalition and the Castro Valley school district. (Screenshot)
Posted inEducation

Castro Valley school board approves contract with ‘liberated’ ethnic studies group

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 20, 2022January 31, 2022
(Photo-Justin Elson-Flickr Commons)
Posted inLocal Voice

Jewish approach to mental health crises is ‘Care First, Jail Last’

Jonathan SimonRahel Smith by Jonathan Simon and Rahel Smith January 19, 2022
Susan Aronovsky visits with her 94-year-old father, Albert Stark, at the S.F. Campus for Jewish Living on March 29, the first time they had seen each other in over a year. (Photo/Camille Cohen)
Posted inBay Area, Uncategorized

New California public health rules make it harder to visit relatives in nursing homes

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 13, 2022
The family of Mayer Goldberg in Ukraine, with Mayer's father Eliyahu standing in the center. Generations later, their descendants reconnected in America thanks to 23andMe genetic tests.
Posted inNews

Generations after their ancestor left Ukraine, long-lost family members find each other on opposite coasts

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 13, 2022January 18, 2022

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