Maya Mirsky

Budapest, Oakland

Journalist and Staff Writer at J. The Jewish News of Northern California

Journalist Staff writer at https://t.co/UtWNDG2UVj

Articles

Felony charges proceed against 7 Golden Gate Bridge protesters

Nov 26, 2024 | jweekly.com | Maya Mirsky |David Wilensky

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. Seven pro-Palestinian protesters continue to face felony charges over blocking the Golden Gate Bridge, though a judge dropped most misdemeanor charges related to April’s incident, a San Francisco District Attorney’s Office spokesperson told J. on Tuesday.
Berkeley Haas names 2024 Finance Fellows

Nov 5, 2024 | newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu | Maya Mirsky |Kim Girard

For Vaneshia Reed, MBA 26, the road from the culinary world to business school aligned with her mission to help improve the operational inefficiencies of food systems. “Working in the industry and realizing how broken our food system was, and also thinking about who has access to capital, got me excited about private market investing and being able to democratize access to capital,” Reed, one of 12 Berkeley Haas Finance Fellows, said.
Why Jewish Americans can’t agree on racism

Oct 24, 2024 | jweekly.com | Maya Mirsky

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. (JTA) — In the summer of 2020, a friend and I were deep in conversation about race. You might remember it well, that summer of reckoning that followed George Floyd’s murder, igniting discussions on race across the country. Race relations suddenly became as central a campaign issue as the economy and health care. “Why does color have to matter so much?” my friend asked. This question lingered with me.
UCLA allowed antisemitism to fester, task force says

Oct 23, 2024 | jweekly.com | Maya Mirsky

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. (JTA) — A new report from a campus antisemitism task force accused the pro-Palestinian movement at the University of California, Los Angeles of triggering a torrent of abuse directed at Jewish and Israeli students, faculty and staff.
Harris and Trump disagree on Israel, except for where they don't

Oct 23, 2024 | jweekly.com | Maya Mirsky

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. (JTA) — WASHINGTON — With just weeks to go before the election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have both tried to use Israel as a wedge issue: Trump has said the country will not exist in two years if he is defeated, and Harris’ campaign has called his rhetoric on Israel antisemitic.
How we've judged other Jews' holiday observances over the years

Oct 8, 2024 | jweekly.com | Maya Mirsky |David Wilensky

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. As the yearly pivot point for Jewish life, both religious and cultural, the High Holidays have been covered in this publication from a variety of perspectives — the subject of lengthy moral essays (“May Almighty bless the work of their hands and sanctify every plan and hope for happiness and prosperity”), society tidbits (“a Sukkoth card party”) and lot of advertisements (long may that continue!).
Weekly Report - September 26th

Sep 26, 2024 | combatantisemitism.org | Emma Goss |Maya Mirsky |Kirsten Beard |Tyler Dawson

By EMMA GOSS, MAYA MIRSKY A driver on an East Bay freeway last week allegedly shouted death threats and racial slurs and pointed what appeared to be a gun at another driver with an Israeli flag on their car, according to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. Across the bay, a Jewish woman who displays an Israeli flag in her front window said her family’s home was vandalized on Tuesday night. San Francisco resident Yana Rathman told J.
First-gen club for MBA students builds ‘family’ at Haas

Sep 23, 2024 | newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu | Maya Mirsky

As the first person in his family to go to college, Damon Wiley, MBA 25, arrived at Haas knowing he’d meet other students who shared a similar background. But as the months passed, he began to wonder how first-gens, who comprise 20% of his class, could support each other better.
Trans and Jewish identities meld in new CJM show

Sep 6, 2024 | jweekly.com | Maya Mirsky

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. For artist Nicki Green, very little in the world is binary: black or white, good or bad, right or wrong. That belief is behind the title of her exhibition “Nicki Green: Firmament,” which opened Thursday at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum. “Firmament,” or “raqia” in Hebrew, refers in Genesis to an amorphous space that separates earth from the heavens.
Guns, no thanks; dress code, yes please; Etc.

Sep 5, 2024 | jweekly.com | Maya Mirsky

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. I was disturbed to read the “Taking Aim” calendar listing for a firearms training course in the Aug. 9 issue of J. Which Jewish value does a firearms training course promote? We are all too familiar with the loss of innocent lives and severe harm caused by the private use of firearms in our country. Problems cannot be solved by individuals wielding arms. Violence begets violence.