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Screenshot from the film "Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power."
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Berkeley Jewish filmmaker wins NAACP award; day school students win Hazon arts awards

by J. Staff March 8, 2022

Berkeley filmmaker Abby Ginzberg won an NAACP Image Award on Feb. 26 for “Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power,” a documentary about the East Bay congressperson, the highest ranking African […]

A man wades through the flooded Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx, N.Y., following a night of heavy wind and rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, Sept. 2, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Spencer Platt-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Who by water? Who by fire? The climate change crisis demands a Jewish response.

by Nigel Savage, Jakir Manela and JTA September 9, 2021September 9, 2021
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
Rabbi Zoe McCoon is a Detroit native who is moving to the Bay Area for her first rabbinical post at Temple Beth Torah in Fremont.
Posted inNews

‘Joyful, welcoming, wise’: Beth Torah gets new rabbi with roots in Flint, Michigan

by Gabriel Greschler June 23, 2021
Hazon CEO Nigel Savage practices blowing his shofar. (Photo/Courtesy Hazon)
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Jewish environmental group sounds the call: Blow the shofar on Earth Day

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA April 21, 2020

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