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Crossword constructor Adam Wagner holds his first puzzle published in the New York Times. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inCulture

Jewish crossword constructors across the Bay Area find clues to community

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb June 10, 2026June 15, 2026

Updated on June 15 Once a year, crossword obsessives from the West Coast gather at a Berkeley synagogue to compete, compare notes and celebrate a shared devotion to the game […]

Rabbi Stuart Kelman in March 2025. (Courtesy)
Posted inObituaries

Stuart Kelman, founding rabbi of Berkeley’s Netivot Shalom, dies at 84

by Sue Fishkoff June 3, 2026June 3, 2026
An older woman sits smiling in a motorized wheelchair
Posted inObituaries

Judith Heumann, Jewish disability advocate who spurred a movement, dies at 75

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA March 7, 2023
Garbage and abandoned shopping carts litter the underpass under I-80 in Emeryville, where homeless people often sleep, Nov. 21, 2021.(Photo/Fran Quittel)
Posted inBay Area

She contacted Caltrans 75 times to clean up a dirty I-80 off-ramp

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 23, 2021November 24, 2021
Anatoly Smolkin (Photo/Berkeley Police) interrupted a Shabbat service at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley (Photo/File).
Posted inBay Area

Ranting disbarred lawyer disrupts Berkeley synagogue service, then goes looking for Chabad rabbi

by J. Staff August 12, 2021August 17, 2021
Rabbi Chai Levy in the sanctuary at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley.
Posted inReligion

How Jewish rituals can ease us back into the world

Rabbi Chai Levy by Rabbi Chai Levy May 24, 2021
Here's Bernie sitting for an interview in the J. newsroom!
Posted inComedy

Bernie-in-mittens memes pop up at Bay Area Jewish locales

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky January 21, 2021January 22, 2021
Screenshot from a KPIX segment on the donation.
Posted inPhilanthropy

East Bay synagogues donate 232,000 meals to food bank

by J. Staff December 24, 2020December 24, 2020
Youth Spirit's Tiny House Village in Oakland will begin housing homeless youth in January 2021. (Photo/Daniel Arauz)
Posted inUncategorized

Tiny colorful houses for homeless Oakland youth almost ready

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
a little boy and a little girl sit on the ground wearing masks playing
Posted inEducation

Mostly ups, a few downs as Jewish preschools respond to Covid scares

by Gabriel Greschler November 20, 2020November 23, 2020

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