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Perhaps the most powerful part of Marla’s story is not the past but the future – specifically, all the babies who have been named after her.

Jewish student co-op in Berkeley celebrates the big 4-0 When Lesley Said Matsa was at UC Berkeley in the early 2000s, living away from home for the first time, she felt lost as Passover approached. She realized how helping her family cook and clean prepared her mentally for the holiday. Good thing she knew about the Berkeley Bayit. The communal, off-campus house built in 1908 is a place where Jewish students live together and host holiday events — so Matsa asked if she could come over and help cook for the seder. “We had a barely functional oven, and it was a crowd of novice cooks,” she...