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Karen Galatz's mother's treasured bible of contact information. (KAREN GALATZ)
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

My mom’s precious old ‘housewife’ phone book is the key to my family

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz March 27, 2020March 27, 2020
The coronavirus and K Street in Washington, D.C., home to many political lobbying groups. (JTA MONTAGE/GETTY)
Posted inU.S.

In a pandemic, pro-Israel lobbies move into the home office

by Ron Kampeas and JTA March 27, 2020March 27, 2020
A very overwhelmed Maya Mirsky in the Passover aisle at the grocery story.
Posted inUncategorized

Let my people know: this is the first time I’ve had to plan a seder

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 27, 2020September 28, 2023
The ark doors at Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin, Texas, mimic an ancient depiction of the Hebrew calendar. (Photo/Rabbi Neil Blumofe)
Posted inColumns

It could be easy to lose sense of time during the coronavirus pandemic. Jewish tradition has an antidote for that.

Rabbi Benjamin Resnick by Rabbi Benjamin Resnick March 25, 2020March 25, 2020
2020 Market Hall seder plate with horseradish, shank bone and eggs. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inJewish Life

Don’t want to cook that seder yourself? Here are options for delivery or takeout seder meals in the Bay Area.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 24, 2020March 30, 2020
Julie Levine lights Shabbat candles (Photo/Jacqueline Warner)
Posted inParenting

Trading a frazzled Shabbat for one that makes me grateful

by Julie Levine March 24, 2020
Covers of "A Bookshop in Berlin" by Francoise Frenkel and "Odyssey of an Apple Thief" by Moishe Rozenbaumas
Posted inOff the Shelf

Newly translated from French, these two Holocaust memoirs are a treasure

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman March 20, 2020March 20, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the media in Kfar Maccabiah, Ramat Gan on February 21, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Tomer Neuberg-Flash90
Posted inThe Tell

In Israel, the pandemic becomes an instrument of preserving power

by Ron Kampeas and JTA March 20, 2020
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inTorah

Two little biblical letters that ‘mean nothing but express everything’

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan March 20, 2020March 19, 2020
Market Hall seder plate with freshly prepared horseradish, shank bone and eggs. (Photo/Courtesy Market Hall)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

At Market Hall, they cry over the horseradish so you don’t have to

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 18, 2020March 30, 2020

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