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When hungry guests walked into a recent Israeli brunch at Walnut Creek’s Congregation B’nai Tikvah, many jaws dropped. Even those familiar with abundant Israeli brunch spreads couldn’t believe the variety and bounty before them. Ample time was allotted for photographs before attendees were allowed to dig in. The July 28 fundraising event, sponsored by the shul’s Israel committee, was the work of Hana Levy Windrix, 57, of Concord, and Syana Naaman Cohen, 47, of Lafayette. Both

Bay Area Jewish synagogues, community groups and Israelis are banding together in the face of the attacks in Israel to fundraise and build support. Many of them have direct ties to friends and family in Israel who have been killed, taken hostage or are injured. "Israel is a small country. Everyone knows someone." according to Rabbi Dovber Berkowitz with the Chabad of Contra Costa. They are knitting together support in the Bay Area Jewish community in the face of what he calle

Two survivors of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel shared their harrowing story with the Jewish community on Sunday in San Francisco. Bay Area resident Rebecca Goodman turned out Sunday night at Congregation Chevra Thilim to hear from two October 7 survivors. "I want to hear their story. I want to bear witness so that when others tell me this, it did not happen, I can say I heard from people who were there," said Rebecca Goodman, a Bay Area resident and employee of the Je

Back in the public sphere after Oct. 7, the former terror scion turned undercover Shin Bet agent laments how the Islamist group his father co-founded is tolerated in the West. One of the most passionate voices in support of a large-scale Israel Defense Force operation to clear Hamas from its last major stronghold in the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city of Rafah comes from a man raised by the terrorist organization. Mosab Hassan Yousef, the disowned son of a Hamas co-founder She