Dan Pine

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Asher Cohen will head to Yale University this fall to attend its prestigious medical school. The newly minted Cal graduate and future physician is excited about this next chapter of his life but acknowledges he's a bit nervous. "I'm a math major at Berkeley," he told J. a few days before graduating, "so I know very little about the human body."Odds are he will master the medical reference Gray's Anatomy in short order. Cohen is just 20 but has already accomplished so much.

Mar 6, 2025 | jweekly.com | Dan Pine

The students in Piedmont High School's sophomore acting class had never heard the word "putsch." But they were about to find out what it means. Their class on Tuesday took place inside a bus that doubles as one of four Mobile Museums of Tolerance (MMOT). Parked near Piedmont City Hall for the week, it was outfitted to seat 30, movie theater-style, with three screens projecting films and photos that brought history to life.

Nov 6, 2024 | jweekly.com | Dan Pine

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. You’d think stand-up comedian Moshe Kasher would feel a bit of bravado about returning to the Bay Area this month to headline San Francisco’s Punch Line. Instead, the former Oakland resident finds it “more stressful” to play local comedy clubs. “I’m so conscious about what material I did last time and what’s new and fresh,” he told J.

Oct 14, 2024 | jweekly.com | Dan Pine

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. At one point during her 28-mile ride on a “water bike”from Marin County to the Farallon Islands, Jessica Schiller found herself pedaling across open ocean with no land in sight. Suddenly, she had unexpected companions: a pod of dolphins leaping alongside her. That’s when Schiller felt that her late daughter Naomi, who died two years ago of a fentanyl overdose, was with her.

Sep 25, 2024 | jweekly.com | Dan Pine

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. Some 80 years ago in Canton, Ohio, a man named Paul Heller chaired the Jewish Welfare Fund, a precursor to the modern-day Jewish federation. Now Heller’s granddaughter, Laura Lauder, is following in his footsteps as the next board chair of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund. Her term begins Jan. 15.