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Zoë Hall and Marcelo Tubert take on multiple roles in “L’Chaim, America!” (David Chiu/Courtesy The Braid)
Posted inTheater

‘L’Chaim, America!’ New play weaves diverse strands of Jewish life

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 19, 2026May 19, 2026

America is composed of many strands, as is America’s Jewry. That idea animates a new production coming to the Bay Area from Jewish storytelling troupe The Braid. “L’Chaim, America!” weaves […]

“There is a moment of darkness here,” U.S. Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-San Jose) says during a JCRC event on Dec. 20, the seventh night of Hanukkah, at Congregation Shir Hadash in Los Gatos. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Elected officials join event condemning ‘human swastika’ at San Jose high school

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 22, 2025December 22, 2025
(From left) Rotem Greenberg, Claire Nemhauser, Rabbi Michael Walden and Brandon Kessel at the Maimonides Moot Court Competition in New York. (Photo/Courtesy Walden)
Posted inLocal Voice

Why I took a group of Reform teens to a Jewish law debate in New York

by Rabbi Michael Walden May 29, 2024
Rabbi Nico Socolovsky at Congregation Shir Hasash in Los Gatos. (Photo/Emma Goss)
Posted inNews

Argentine native brings global perspective as Shir Hadash rabbi

by Emma Goss June 8, 2023
Firefighters respond to a fire in Boulder Creek in Santa Cruz County, Aug. 23, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Kent Nishimura-Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Five things the Jewish community can do to stop climate change

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward August 12, 2021August 12, 2021
“I’d like Netanyahu to be thrown out. He’s a crook,” Benny Morris said last week. (Wikimedia-Aude CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inBay Area

In Bay Area, candid Israeli historian Benny Morris sounds off on genocide and politics

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman February 24, 2020February 29, 2020
a black and white of bernstein seated at a piano, making annotations on a piece of sheet music
Posted inMusic

A concert of cantors will pay tribute to the Jewish music of Leonard Bernstein

by Rob Gloster January 17, 2019

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