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Haman shooting an arrow at the zodiac to forecast the future in an 18th-century Dutch megillah. (Photo/Collection of Shalom Sabar)
Posted inPurim

Month of Adar: Facts are flexible as we don the masks of Purim

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude February 24, 2020March 2, 2020
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and the Trump administration's proposed peace plan map. (JTA/Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)
Posted inThe Tell

A strange place for AIPAC — the left of a peace plan

by Ron Kampeas and JTA February 21, 2020February 21, 2020
A group of women lead a sisterhood Shabbat dinner at a synagogue in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1943. (Photo/Flickr-Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest)
Posted inTorah

How do we save ourselves from ourselves? Shabbat.

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg February 20, 2020February 21, 2020
Abby Chava Stein, author of "Becoming Eve." (JTA/Debra Nussbaum Cohen)
Posted inOff the Shelf

Leaving Orthodoxy: personal stories of gender and Hasidism

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman February 20, 2020February 20, 2020
a generic image of a girl reading from the Torah
Posted inMixed & Matched

How do I deal with my tween’s resistance to having a bat mitzvah?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler February 19, 2020February 19, 2020
Katz Bagels in the Mission District has been forcibly closed by the S.F. Health Department. (Photo/Flickr-gazeronly CC BY-ND 2.0)
Posted inSmall Bites

Katz Bagels closing next month after 27 years

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 18, 2020February 19, 2020
Mario Vasquez, executive chef and owner of Metropolitan Catering. (Courtesy Mario Vasquez)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

L’Chaim kosher sushi on a new roll with change of ownership

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 18, 2020February 19, 2020
A young David Golovin, chef of Dear Inga, with his Oma Inge
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Eastern European comfort food comes to the Mission, by way of chef’s ‘oma’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 14, 2020February 19, 2020
Background: 2018 AIPAC Conference (JTA/Haim Zach/GPO); Foreground: Rep. Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn. (JTA/Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Posted inU.S.

AIPAC is coming, but no one knows who’s speaking

by Ron Kampeas and JTA February 14, 2020
Cantor Jack Mendelson in "A Cantor's Head"
Posted inJew in the Pew

A master of synagogue music finds his style and career fading in touching documentary

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 14, 2020August 17, 2021

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