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ISRAEL21c launches inspiring new section geared to 18-24 year olds Welcome to Groundbreaking Israel, a new section of ISRAEL21c developed and created by our Digital Ambassadors for college-age kids. Some of the ambassadors taking part in regular Zoom calls. Still from call Out the window of an iconic Grand Central café, the traffic on 42 nd St was moving slowly but the coffee was flowing as we racked our brains trying to answer a question that was continually being asked of us professionals at...

South Bay investor puts his stock in making organic kosher wine Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Len Lehmann is a known name in pockets of the Peninsula and South Bay, both in the tech world, where for 30 years he was an entrepreneur and investor, and in the Jewish community as one of the founders of Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto. He also co-founded the Jewish learning experience Limmud Bay Area, and has been very involved with the reb...

Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Smitten, the San Francisco ice cream company owned by Robyn Sue Fisher, is celebrating Kamala Harris as the country’s first female vice president by introducing a new flavor, MVP, or Madam Vice President. “As a Bay Area, female-founded small business, we are ecstatic to welcome our country’s first-ever female vice president, who also happens to be from the Bay Area and also happens to love ice cream,” Fis...

Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Augie’s Montreal Deli has moved to a new location in Berkeley. According to owner Lex Gopnik-Lewinski, the lease was up in its space near Berkeley Bowl West, on Potter Street, and this was an opportunity to expand the deli’s outdoor dining space. Augie’s is now occupying what was once Brennan’s, near the Fourth Street shopping district. The location is more than meant to be for Gopnik-Lewinski, who grew up...

Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Sasha Yilmaz-Ward was heading toward a career in academia. After majoring in Jewish studies and Spanish literature as an undergrad, she was accepted to a Ph.D. program in Istanbul, where she planned to study contemporary antisemitic myths about Jews, how they are depicted in the Turkish media, and what role these issues play in Turkish-Israeli politics. And then, “I just hit a point where all the breaks I was ta...

Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Sara Eisen moved to the Bay Area with the goal of working as a pastry chef at Chez Panisse. It only took her three years to land a job there as a pastry cook. Four months later, the restaurant was shut down by the coronavirus. “It was a huge bummer, to be honest,” said Eisen, who came to the Bay Area from New Jersey specifically to work directly with farmers and local ingredients. After doing an Urban Adamah f...