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Screenshot from the film "Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power."
Posted inCulture

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 […]

Students at Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto during the 2020-21 school year. (Photo/Deena Riddle)
Posted inEducation

Kehillah students must be vaxed. Other local Jewish schools are still weighing their options.

by Gabriel Greschler August 18, 2021August 23, 2021
a young white man with a closely cropped beard sits in the crook of a tree
Posted inNews

Program created to honor local day school grad who died in nature

Rachele Kanigel by Rachele Kanigel April 15, 2021April 16, 2021
a white man with a black mask over her nose and mouth stands at the front of a classroom
Posted inEducation

How Jewish schools are making pandemic safety part of the curriculum

by Gabriel Greschler October 28, 2020October 28, 2020
Meg Keene's son. (Photo/Courtesy Keene)
Posted inUncategorized

Orthodox school challenged by gender-fluid applicant

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 13, 2020August 17, 2020
Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus at the Hotel Du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware, March 12, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Michael Brochstein-Echoes Wire-Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
Posted inLetters

Quibble with our school Covid coverage; Biden’s ‘career of lying’; Stop saying ‘Jewish privilege’; An ‘anti-Israel rag’; etc.

by J. Readers August 7, 2020August 7, 2020
Yavneh Day School teacher Jenessa Schwartz's third-grade daughter Ramona at Yavneh's all-school tefillah. (Photo/Courtesy Jenessa Schwartz)
Posted inEducation

Jewish schools making the grade with distance learning

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 27, 2020April 27, 2020
Instead of her planned bat mitzvah Torah service, Raizel Mahgel-Friedman will have a "Torah learning" ceremony streamed on Zoom on April 24. (Photo/Courtesy Nell Mahgel-Friedman)
Posted inReligion

Orthodox Jews find creative workarounds for b’nai mitzvahs during pandemic

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 21, 2020April 22, 2020
Former Brandeis Marin student Ethan Lamstein studied Israeli street artists before his school's trip to Israel.
Posted inIsrael at 70

School Israel trips evolve to keep up with society, and with teens

by Rob Gloster September 26, 2018October 2, 2018
Students at Tehiyah Day School study and celebrate their Jewish heritage.
Posted inEditorial

Goodbye to a cherished East Bay Jewish day school

by J. Editorial Board July 26, 2018July 26, 2018

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