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JCC East Bay

Olives trees
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JCC East Bay ready to take root on Oakland campus with August preschool opening

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi June 9, 2026June 10, 2026

When she visited the JCC East Bay’s future campus last week, CEO Susie Cohen Crumpler found a pallet of young olive trees ready for planting along the walkways of its […]

This striking hen is named, if you can believe it, Firetruck Taco. (Photo/Courtesy East Bay JCC)
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Meet Firetruck Taco, a chicken named via JCC preschool bidding war

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb July 3, 2023
A rendering of the planned JCC East Bay's campus in Oakland. (Courtesy JCC East Bay)
Posted inNews

More green, more light — updated plans for new Oakland JCC campus

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 9, 2023June 9, 2026
“Unite” (1971) by Barbara Jones-Hugu, from the exhibit “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power”
Posted inArt & About

Revisiting 1968 at the de Young; art, booze and sacred words in East Bay

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 14, 2019November 13, 2019
All funding previously promised to the East Bay Federation's grantees, such as the East Bay JCC, will be honored by the S.F.-based Federation as it takes over from the East Bay Federation. (Photo/file)
Posted inEditorial

Big federation changes reflect the current reality in the Bay Area

by J. Editorial Board May 17, 2019May 16, 2019
From the cover of "Ayn Od," a new album by Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks and Briah
Posted inMusic

New music from Berkeley makes Jewish worship ‘transformative’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall September 26, 2018September 26, 2018
Rachel Brodie at JCC Hanukkah event in December (Photo/Katrina Lee)
Posted inNews

She’s opening doors as JCC East Bay ‘looks for its Jewish soul’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 1, 2018February 9, 2018
Christian Picciolini, a reformed neo-Nazi, will speak at Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas, Oct. 27-29, 2017
Posted inJewish Life

With reformed neo-Nazi, JCC East Bay heads for ‘Uncharted’ territory

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 18, 2017October 17, 2017
A large group aliyah during the Shabbat morning Torah service at Wilderness Torah's Sukkot on the Farm, Oct. 2016 (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inJewish Life

6 outside-the-booth Sukkot events around the Bay

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 2, 2017October 6, 2017
Two women hold signs that say "Jews resist Islamophobia" and "Jews against hate"
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

PHOTOS: Bay Area Jews at the Women’s Marches

by J. Staff January 25, 2017

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