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4 weeks ago | 
berkeleyside.org | Sue Fishkoff |Zac Farber
After 10 years of meeting, planning and fundraising, shovels finally hit dirt at the symbolic groundbreaking for Berkeley Moshav, the nation’s first Jewish urban cohousing complex, with 36 privately owned units. “Such an important dream is coming true,” said Rabbi Dev Noily of Piedmont’s Kehilla Community Synagogue at the celebration on Sunday, offering a blessing that “this way for Jews to live is a good way.”This story was first published on J.
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1 month ago | 
jweekly.com | Sue Fishkoff
Patrons attending two sold-out performances of the Batsheva Dance Company at UC Berkeley over the weekend had to run a gauntlet of anti-Israel protesters outside the venue. Some 40 or 50 protesters flanked police barricades set up outside Zellerbach Hall on Saturday evening, flying Palestinian flags and shouting anti-Israel slogans, decrying Cal's hosting of an Israeli modern dance company they consider "ambassadors of Israeli genocide," according to one protester's sign.
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2 months ago | 
forward.com | Sue Fishkoff
This article originally appeared on J, The Jewish News of Northern California, and was reprinted here with permission. David, an 89-year-old Iranian Jewish refugee, landed in Washington, D.C., last month on a plane with 17 fellow Iranians fleeing religious persecution. They were Baha'i, Christians and members of other minority faiths. David was the only Jew. It was Jan. 17, three days before America shut its doors to all refugees.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
jweekly.com | Sue Fishkoff
Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. What should Jewish and Israel education look like, particularly in a post-Oct. 7 world?
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
jta.org | Dvora Treisman |Marcy Oster |Sue Fishkoff
Houssame Hatri, 24, will be retried in the north African country, which does not extradite to France.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
jweekly.com | Sue Fishkoff
Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. For Rabba Mor Shimonie, Zionism isn’t about self-definition. It’s a form of action. “I am a Zionist, not as an identity for myself but as an active part of my life. If I’m doing something of love and care toward Zion, I am a Zionist,” said Shimonie, the family education director at The Kitchen, an independent congregation in San Francisco.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
jweekly.com | Sue Fishkoff
Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. This year’s Z3 Conference, held Sunday in Palo Alto, radiated a very different mood than last year’s event, which took place just four weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre. In 2023, the conference, which each year examines the present and future of diaspora-Israel ties, was marked by grief, rage, helplessness and the sense that Jews were once again alone in the world.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
jweekly.com | Sue Fishkoff
Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. Ziv Frailich, 36, saw his mother’s murdered body on a Hamas video, lying dead alongside other older kibbutz members right outside her front door. Hila Rabinovich Escapa, 31, shivered alone in her safe room with her puppy before being evacuated on foot through terrorist gunfire, 11 hours after the Hamas attack began.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
jweekly.com | Sue Fishkoff
Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. In 2015, Yemen was in shambles. The Iran-backed Houthis seized control of the western part of the country, including the capital city of Sanaa. The rise to power of the fiercely anti-Israel and antisemitic extremists moved the Jewish Agency for Israel to help 19 of the last 100 or so Jews in Yemen escape to the Jewish state.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
jweekly.com | Sue Fishkoff
Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. Robin Herzog’s father, Steffen, was 8 when he and his brother boarded a train in Frankfurt headed to safety in England. Jacqueline Shelton’s mother, Ilse, was 17 when her train left Berlin for the U.K. Ralph Samuels was 7 when he took a flight to England from Dresden.
