Articles from David A.M. Wilensky

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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

Tel Aviv University alumni and members (from left) Barak Yagour, Alon Girmonsky, Tali Alon, TAU-American Friends board member Shira Ronen, and Galia Mor organized Friends of TAU's first-ever Bay Area event.

Honors, happenings, comings & goings — May 2019

by David A.M. Wilensky May 31, 2019June 3, 2019

Through June 1, the recently renovated Oakland Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is open to the public for the first time in 55 years, (Photo/Courtesy Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

A journey into the Holy of Holies — in a Latter-day Saints temple

by David A.M. Wilensky May 14, 2019October 30, 2024

The "Haifa Dreamliner" has been decorated with San Francisco livery for El Al's new direct route to SFO. (Photo/Courtesy El Al)

Uncategorized, Bay Area

El Al plane decked out in S.F. scenery for new flights to SFO

by David A.M. Wilensky April 30, 2019April 30, 2019

From the cover of "In Broad Daylight" by Patrick Desbois

Q&A: The Catholic priest who found mass graves of 1.5 million Jews

by David A.M. Wilensky April 29, 2019April 30, 2019

After a recent burglary, neighbors and other local business owners left messages of support on the boarded up window of Afikomen Judaica in Berkeley. (Photo/Courtesy Afikomen Judaica)

Berkeley’s beloved Afikomen Judaica store burglarized

by David A.M. Wilensky April 25, 2019