Articles from David A.M. Wilensky

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Shabbat dinner at the Karaite Convention in Daly City, Aug. 30, 2019 (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)

At Karaite Convention, everything is the same — but different

by David A.M. Wilensky September 5, 2019May 12, 2021

Rabbi Jacob Kessner confronts his zombified congregants in the latest episode of "Fear the Walking Dead."

This week on ‘Fear the Walking Dead,’ zombies attack my childhood synagogue

by David A.M. Wilensky September 3, 2019September 4, 2019

A lone man in a dessert throwing his arms up

Honors, happenings, comings & goings — August 2019

by David A.M. Wilensky August 22, 2019

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz during his first psilocybin experience at Johns Hopkins University (Photo/Courtesy Kamenetz)

Can psychedelics heal the Jewish people? This rabbi is exploring that question.

by David A.M. Wilensky August 20, 2019May 12, 2020

URJ Camp Newman's Avodah unit at the San Francisco AIDS Walk

Honors, happenings, comings & goings — July 2019

by David A.M. Wilensky July 25, 2019

Jewish astrologer Lorelai Kude in her Berkeley home, July 17, 2019 (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)

Time to rethink everything you’ve been told about Jews and astrology

by David A.M. Wilensky July 23, 2019January 13, 2026

From “Seder-Masochism,” a meandering animated musical exploration of the Passover seder

‘Sita’ director returns with energetic, meandering, musical meditation on Passover seder

by David A.M. Wilensky July 12, 2019July 17, 2019

At a gathering earlier this year in New York, attendees brainstormed for a new Jewish holiday: Yom HaTzedek — Day of Justice. (Photo/Courtesy Andrew Mandel)

He’s on a quest to create a new Jewish holiday — Yom HaTzedek, a Day of Justice

by David A.M. Wilensky July 9, 2019July 9, 2019

Ron Brachman of the director of the Jacobs-Technion Cornell Institute (center) spoke this month at an American Technion Society Bay Area event organized by one of the group's board members, David Kaufman (right); at left, Vicki Buder, director of development at ATS Bay Area

Honors, happenings, comings & goings — June, 2019

by David A.M. Wilensky June 27, 2019November 6, 2024

Jewlia Eisenberg leads a song at the JeWitch Collective’s “Song of Songs Seder Celebrating Queer Sexuality” in the yurt at Urban Adamah in Berkeley, May 19. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)

Magic, sex and blessings at an unconventional seder in Berkeley

by David A.M. Wilensky June 12, 2019June 14, 2019