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Tribal leader and Sogorea Te’ Land Trust co-founder Corrina Gould speaks at the West Berkeley Shellmound rematriation celebration on Saturday. (Kelly Sullivan/Berkeleyside)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish allies join Ohlone to celebrate transfer of West Berkeley Shellmound to Indigenous hands

Frances Dinkelspiel by Frances Dinkelspiel July 16, 2024July 16, 2024

A version of this article first appeared in Berkeleyside and is reprinted with permission. Hundreds of people gathered at the West Berkeley Shellmound on Saturday evening to celebrate the transfer […]

Darla Contois (left) as Esther Rosenblum and Lisa Edelstein as Golda Rosenblum in "Little Bird." (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Steve Ackerman)
Posted inTV

In PBS series ‘Little Bird,’ a Jewish woman uncovers her traumatic Indigenous past

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov October 24, 2023October 25, 2023
Attendees participate in a High Holidays tashlich ceremony organized by Jews on Ohlone Land in Berkeley. (Photo/Brooke Anderson)
Posted inNews

Through reparations, education and land statements, local Jewish activists are standing with Bay Area Indigenous people

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten October 13, 2022October 15, 2024
An acorn on the seder plate brings the struggle of the indigenous peoples of Northern California into the Passover story. (Photo/piqsels.com)
Posted inLocal Voice

Why we’ve started putting an acorn on our seder plates 

Rabbi Dev Noily by Rabbi Dev Noily April 5, 2022April 5, 2022
A Feb. 3, 2020 UC Berkeley student union meeting where students debated a measure to remove a controversial anti-Israel display. (Photo/Sunny Shen-Daily Californian)
Posted inLocal Voice

Zionism. Indigenous. Occupation. Let’s define our terms.

Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman by Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman June 3, 2021June 3, 2021
Ariel Luckey speaks at a Nov. 18 "Jews on Ohlone Land" event at Urban Adamah in Berkeley. (Maya Mirsky)
Posted inUncategorized

East Bay Jews discuss what it means to live as Jews on Ohlone land

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 22, 2019November 25, 2019
Canadian indigenous and Jewish photographer Kali Spitzer (left) was mostly raised in Victoria by her Jewish mother, Eloise (right). (Photos/Kali Spitzer)
Posted inCulture

This indigenous and Jewish photographer wants to tell her people’s stories — before it’s too late

Josefin Dolsten by JTA and Josefin Dolsten June 4, 2019June 4, 2019

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