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Carey Mulligan (left) as Megan Twohey and Zoe Kazan as Jodi Kantor in "She Said." (Photo/JoJo Whilden-Universal Pictures)
Posted inUncategorized

Q&A: Journalist Jodi Kantor, whose Weinstein reporting stars in ‘She Said,’ will speak in Palo Alto

Sarah Rosen by Sarah Rosen and JTA November 22, 2022
Wild mushroom latkes at Mark 'n Mike's, the Jewish deli concept at One Market. (Photo/Hardy Wilson)
Posted inSmall Bites

Eight kinds of latkes in S.F.; Boichik Bagels opens in Palo Alto; Kosher bakery in San Mateo

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 22, 2022December 30, 2022
Kevin Mullin and Jackie Speier at a rally for Mullin's campaign to become Speier's successor. (Photo/Courtesy Mullin)
Posted inNews

How a pro-Israel super PAC helped a moderate Dem win Jackie Speier’s seat in Congress

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene November 18, 2022November 18, 2022
black and white photo of an angry man speaking into a microphone
Posted inHistory

How did Nazis use propaganda to justify their horrors? Stanford psychologist’s analysis explains

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 17, 2022November 22, 2022
Gathering Nov. 12 to dedicate the new Memorial Garden in Colma. (Photo/Patrick Walls Photography)
Posted inBay Area

Memory Garden in Colma is first Jewish place in U.S. to mourn pregnancy loss

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 15, 2022November 21, 2022
Samantha Liu carries a Torah scroll at her recent bat mitzvah at Peninsula Temple Beth El in San Mateo. Starting Nov. 1, the synagogue is no longer requiring masks at services. (Photo/Courtesy PTBE)
Posted inNews

With Covid protocols relaxed, masks come off at more synagogues — but some still say it’s premature

Jew,  Jewish,  J. The Jewish News of Northern California
Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 3, 2022November 3, 2022
The author (right) and her daughter, Niki Ghent Wickenhiser, at a family birthday celebration Oct. 15 at Il Fornaio in Palo Alto.
Posted inSeniors

Who is that stranger in the mirror? It’s me at 80.

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent October 27, 2022October 27, 2022
Left: Manfred Speier standing in front of the Bay Bridge, 1949. Right: Rep. Jackie Speier. (Photos/Courtesy Speier)
Posted inNews

How Rep. Jackie Speier uncovered her family’s hidden Holocaust story

by Dan Pine October 26, 2022
Post-tashlich Shabbat service at the Peninsula JCC's Hamlin Garden, led by (from left) Cantor Doron Shapira, Rabbi Laurie Matzkin, musician Michael Battat and Rabbi Lisa Kingston.
Posted inFirst Person

Kicking off 5783 with spirituality and community on the Peninsula

Rabbi Laurie Matzkin by Rabbi Laurie Matzkin October 26, 2022October 27, 2022
Michal Strutin of Dayenu Circle of Jewish Silicon Valley calls Senator Feinstein's office to demand she vote for climate action at the "Make a Holy Noise for Climate Change" demonstration on Aug. 25 in San Jose.(Photo/George Barahona)
Posted inNews

Jewish climate action group Dayenu urges voters to the polls

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 24, 2022October 24, 2022

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