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Chef-owner Mark Liberman plates a salad at the opening party for Mägo in Oakland. (Photo/Isabel Baer)
Posted inColumns

The magician behind Mägo, the hotly anticipated Piedmont Ave. bistro opening soon

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 24, 2019September 24, 2019
Farmland in the Golan Heights. (Photo/Wikimedia-Shifra Levyathan CC BY 2.5)
Posted inUncategorized

Leaving the world better than you found it

Rabbi Corey Helfand by Rabbi Corey Helfand May 24, 2019May 30, 2019
Some of the greasy delights on their way to the Bay Area as Israeli burger joint Burgerim expands (Photo/Burgerim Instagram)
Posted inColumns

Israeli burger chain Burgerim planning big Northern California expansion

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 22, 2019September 24, 2019
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Her home-cooked Yemenite Jewish food is an homage to family, and now a business

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 21, 2019September 24, 2019
The ark doors at Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin, Texas, mimic an ancient depiction of the Hebrew calendar. (Photo/Rabbi Neil Blumofe)
Posted inTorah

I’m using this space to write about time

Rabbi Stacy Friedman by Rabbi Stacy Friedman May 16, 2019May 16, 2019
Bar manager and cocktail creator Jared Hirsch (Photo/Tex Allen)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Q&A: An artful cocktail creator who rarely drinks alcohol himself

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 16, 2019September 24, 2019
an open bible
Posted inMixed & Matched

It hurt to learn I wasn’t considered Jewish or Christian

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler May 15, 2019
“The Chronicles of San Francisco” mural of 1,200 San Franciscans includes several from the Jewish community — can you find them? (Photo/Courtesy SFMOMA)
Posted inArt & About

1,200 San Franciscans in one giant digital mural; and more arts around the Bay

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 15, 2019May 21, 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)
Posted inReligion

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

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 14, 2019October 30, 2024
Christopher Abbott and George Clooney in Hulu's adaptation of Joseph Heller's Jew-ish WWII satire "Catch-22"
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Josh Gad is a dog; Paul Rudd hosts SNL finale; ‘Catch-22’ comes to TV

by Nate Bloom May 13, 2019May 17, 2019

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