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Rabbi Yisroel Labkowski (right), director of Chabad of Lamorinda, with Rabbi Avrohom Chayempour, program and youth director.
Posted inJewish Life

This East Bay Chabad is selling discount kosher meat

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 9, 2020March 30, 2020
Joe Biden (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

How Joe Biden’s Super Tuesday sweep changes the Jewish 2020 campaign

by Ron Kampeas and JTA March 6, 2020March 6, 2020
Participants in the “No Hate, No Fear” solidarity march in lower Manhattan, Jan. 5, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Erik McGregor-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inTorah

How much spiritual energy should we devote to anti-Semitism?

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg March 6, 2020March 5, 2020
One of Nate's homemade Spelling Bee puzzles. (DREW HIMMELSTEIN)
Posted inParenting

My 7-year-old has a new B-U-R-N-I-N-G passion

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein March 5, 2020
Freud and his cigar, which was definitely just a cigar.
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

Is a cigar just a cigar? Is a piece of matzah just a piece of matzah? Everyday objects and the stories they tell

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz March 4, 2020March 4, 2020
Gal Gadot on the cover of Entertainment Weekly for her upcoming sequel "Wonder Woman 1984."
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Ethiopian Jew goes to Eurovision; Philip Roth goes to television; Tarantino goes to Israel; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 28, 2020February 28, 2020
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inTorah

Our God is unfathomable. So where does that leave us?

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein February 28, 2020February 27, 2020
From the cover of "Eat Something" by Evan Bloom and Rachel Levin
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Wise Sons cookbook is a fun ride through Jewish cuisine old and new

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 27, 2020March 30, 2020
(Flickr/Nathan Sharratt CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inParenting

After my daughter left for college, why did things fall apart?

by Julie Levine February 27, 2020
Aliya Fastman shops at the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Berkeley native Aliya Fastman teaches travelers to love Israeli food

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 26, 2020March 30, 2020

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