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Rabbi Adina Allen

Rabbi Adina Allen

Rabbi Adina Allen is co-founder and creative director of the Jewish Studio Project in Berkeley. She can be reached at [email protected].

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What my relatives’ Christmas celebrations taught me about observing Hanukkah

Rabbi Adina Allen by Rabbi Adina Allen December 24, 2024December 24, 2024

This article initially appeared in My Jewish Learning’s Shabbat newsletter Recharge. To sign up to receive Recharge each week in your inbox, click here. (JTA) — As the only child […]

Several people hug each other, seen from behing
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At a time of loss and grief, this Jewish ritual says you don’t have to go it alone

Rabbi Adina Allen by Rabbi Adina Allen August 12, 2024August 12, 2024
Illustration by Owen Jones from "The History of Joseph and His Brethren," 1869
Posted inTorah

Dreaming makes the world a better place

Rabbi Adina Allen by Rabbi Adina Allen November 29, 2018November 29, 2018
The first day of creation, according to the Nuremberg Chronicle
Posted inColumns

God created us to be creative

Rabbi Adina Allen by Rabbi Adina Allen October 4, 2018September 27, 2018
“Moses and the Ten Commandments,” engraving by H. Martin, ca. 1850
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God has many voices. Which one will you listen to?

Rabbi Adina Allen by Rabbi Adina Allen August 9, 2018
Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert, "Moses Ordering the Slaughter of the Midianites," 1650 (Wikimedia Commons)
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What can we glean from the Bible’s disturbing passages?

Rabbi Adina Allen by Rabbi Adina Allen July 13, 2018July 13, 2018
"Memorial Tablet and Omer Calendar" by Baruch Zvi Ring, ca. 1900
Posted inColumns

What childbirth teaches us about counting the Omer

Rabbi Adina Allen by Rabbi Adina Allen April 20, 2018April 20, 2018
These kids at a 2016 Chabad of North Peninsula Purim party turned Purim glam into glam rock. Also: Harry Potter?
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The holiness of Purim lies in glitz, glam and color

Rabbi Adina Allen by Rabbi Adina Allen February 23, 2018February 23, 2018

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