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Debbie Togliatti hands preschoolers fresh peas from the garden. (Courtesy OFJCC)
Posted inBay Area

Inch by inch, this ‘gardenista’ helped preschoolers grow at the Palo Alto JCC

by Dan Pine June 16, 2026June 16, 2026

After 40 bloomin’ years on the job, Debbie Togliatti is hanging up her trowel.  The gardening specialist at the Oshman Family JCC preschool — or, as she calls herself, “gardenista” […]

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Super Mensch shutters after 8 months in S.F., Ma’lawah Bar closes in Palo Alto

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Noa Argamani, a former hostage in Gaza, tells her story at the OFJCC in Palo Alto on Dec. 16. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

‘If we give up, we just lose,’ former hostage Noa Argamani says in Bay Area

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 17, 2025December 18, 2025
Z3 Project Institute Director David Hazony (left) chats with Z3 Insitute Associate Fellow Benjamin Kerstein (center) and author Sarah Hurwitz before a packed room at the Z3 Conference at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, Nov. 9, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Z3 panel: Define your own Zionism — or someone else will

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 11, 2025November 11, 2025
Author Sarah Hurwitz gives the keynote address during the opening plenary at the Z3 Conference at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, Nov. 9, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

A lighter mood at Z3, as the focus turns to renewal and rebuilding

by Sue Fishkoff November 10, 2025November 10, 2025
Netzach Educational Network President Rabbi Menachem Bombach (left) talks to philanthropist Moses Libitzky (right) at the Z3 Conference at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, Nov. 9, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

Israeli panelists at Z3: To fix a fractured society, just show up

by Sue Fishkoff November 10, 2025November 10, 2025
Hannah Zilberstein lights a yahrzeit candle during a commemoration for the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, Oct. 5, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

At early Oct. 7 gatherings, Bay Area Jews seek comfort among one another

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi October 6, 2025October 6, 2025
Oshman Family JCC Israel Cultural Connection senior director Ronit Jacobs (right) wears a crown and an Israeli flag during at a JCC fundraising event in March. (OFJCC)
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She creates a ‘home away from home for Israelis’ in Palo Alto

by Dan Pine April 28, 2025July 24, 2025
Children at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School prepare for a schoolwide bake sale in 2022. Hausner is one of three Palo Alto schools offering tuition discounts to their staff and to employees at Jewish nonprofits. (Photo/Courtesy Hausner)
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3 Palo Alto Jewish schools to offer tuition discounts to staff

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb January 5, 2024January 8, 2024
a man stands speaking at a podium. a banner in the background reads "A VIBRANT DIASPORA"
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At Z3, we have no time for false moral equivalence

Zack Bodner by Zack Bodner November 2, 2023

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