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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 584

Maya Mirsky

Passengers try to figure out why a Waymo driverless taxi won't move while traffic backs up behind it in San Francisco, February 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
August 28, 2023, 6:31 am
Can you roll on Shabbos? San Francisco rabbis on the robotaxis flooding city streets
New technology is taking us into uncharted territory in Jewish law – but opinions are mixed on whether added mobility will bring communities closer or drive them apart
By Maya Mirsky
A group of Jewish hippies at the House of Love and Prayer in San Francisco, circa 1969. (Photo/Marvin Kussoy, Courtesy Yehudit and Reuven Goldfarb/ via JTA)
December 5, 2022, 2:02 am
‘Mapping Jewish San Francisco’ puts online a treasure trove of local Jewish history
Digital exhibition’s co-founder Prof. Aaron Hahn Tapper says one of the goals is to highlight the role Jews played in making the Bay Area what it is today
By Maya Mirsky
Ava Sayaka Rosen is the artist behind the 'TARO::TORA' tarot deck. (Ava Sakaya Rosen/ via JTA)
December 16, 2021, 5:19 am
This Jewish artist’s tarot card deck is inspired by Torah and ecology
Ava Sayaka Rosen’s TARO::TORA, created during a yearlong fellowship at the JCC East Bay, is simultaneously an art piece, a spiritual tool and a call to connect with nature
By Maya Mirsky
The Henry Madden Library at California State University (Cary Edmondson via JTA)
December 4, 2021, 4:07 am
Fresno State Uni to consider renaming library honoring Nazi sympathizer
Henry Madden, a longtime librarian at the school, found to have been an antisemite and Hitler supporter
By Maya Mirsky
Hanukkah Goblins is based on Eric Kimmel’s classic children’s book 'Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins.' (Art/Kali Hayes, KH Illustration/ via JTA)
December 11, 2020, 2:15 am
New game lets you play Hanukkah goblins and shoot jelly doughnuts
Out December 10, Max Fefer’s tabletop role-playing version of classic children’s book ‘Herschel and the Hanukkah Goblins’ lets players choose their own destiny
By Maya Mirsky
A house in Napa County burns in the Glass Fire, September 29, 2020. (Napa County Sheriff/ via JTA)
October 6, 2020, 5:07 am
How the Northern California fires affected an already disrupted Yom Kippur
Backup arrangements due to the coronavirus pandemic are changed again as congregations are forced to evacuate — some of them in the middle of services
By Maya Mirsky, Dan Pine and Gabe Stutman
A fire in Napa County as seen from Middletown in Lake County, Calif., Aug. 19, 2020. (Jade May via JTA)
August 21, 2020, 8:24 am
Torahs packed, synagogues on alert as wildfires bear down on Northern California
With huge blazes threatening thousands of residents and evoking ‘Biblical’ connotations, some shuls are preparing to evacuate, while pandemic prevents others from providing shelter
By Maya Mirsky and Gabriel Greschler
Illustrative: An Israeli agricultural engineer inspects marijuana plants at the BOL (Breath Of Life) Pharma greenhouse in the country's second-largest medical cannabis plantation, near Kfar Pines in northern Israel, on March 9, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP)
May 11, 2019, 2:53 am
US turns to Israeli know-how for medical cannabis research
American businesses and investors looking for advanced information on the plant are turning to the Jewish State, where the government not only allows research, but funds it
By Maya Mirsky
Drake at a soccer game at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, July 20, 2017. (Aaron M. Sprecher/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)
October 12, 2018, 4:30 am
Chart-topper Drake highlights Jews’ tricky relationship with rap
With an African-American father and a white Jewish mother, the Canadian hip-hop star sings about bar mitzvahs and a hard knock upbringing, though some fans say he’s posing on both
By Maya Mirsky
James A. White, who is serving a life sentence in prison in Vacaville, California established a community college program for fellow inmates. (Courtesy of J. The Jewish News of Northern California/via JTA)
August 29, 2018, 4:49 am
Jewish inmate credits local paper as parole board backs commuting life sentence
James A. White Jr. was originally sentenced to die behind bars, but an inmate college program he founded boasting over 1,500 graduates to date could be the key to his release
By Maya Mirsky
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