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Ohlone

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

As dusk fell on a recent Shabbat, a group of Bay Area Jews gathered at a mostly vacant parking lot in West Berkeley. They had come to perform Havdalah, but […]

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
Rabbi Dev Noily (center) with members of Jews on Ohlone Land in front of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco on Feb. 12. (David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inBay Area

Jewish activists for indigenous rights take issue with CJM’s Levi Strauss exhibit 

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 18, 2020February 19, 2020
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
Ohlone leader Corinna Gould at a protest of construction on top of a shellmound in Berkeley, April 9, 2016 (Photo/Flickr-Wendy Kenin CC BY-ND 2.0)
Posted inHolidays

The Shoah is my story. So is our genocide of Native Americans.

Rabbi Dev Noily by Rabbi Dev Noily April 11, 2018April 11, 2018
Ohlone leader Corinna Gould at a protest of construction on top of a shellmound in Berkeley, April 9, 2016 (Photo/Flickr-Wendy Kenin CC BY-ND 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

How the struggle of the Ohlone relates to our Jewish past

Matthew Leber by Matthew Leber October 27, 2017November 1, 2017

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