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Offerings at Babka by Ayélet in Palo Alto
Posted inOrganic Epicure

New Babka joint in Palo Alto! Kosher Chinese in S.F. closed?

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 14, 2018September 24, 2019
Detail from “Jacob and Rachel at the Well” by James Tissot, 1899
Posted inTorah

Joseph and Benjamin had two mommies

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan December 13, 2018
Weisz in an ornate period costume takes aim with a pistol and grave expression
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Rachel Weisz up for Golden Globe! Philip Glass goes to Kennedy Center! Puppies!

by Nate Bloom December 12, 2018December 12, 2018
a man in a commercial kitchen holding a large tray of latkes
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Annual ‘Latkepalooza’ raises thousands for fire victims

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 11, 2018September 24, 2019
photo: silhouettes of trees in front of a vibrant black, blue and purple starry night sky
Posted inAstrolojew

Month of Tevet: From Hanukkah lights to long winter nights

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude December 10, 2018December 11, 2018
an evocative stylized image in yellow and blue of two silhouetted figures standing under a shadowy colonnade. in the backgound, there are giraffes and a gleaming white city
Posted inOff the Shelf

Sci-fi visions of future and alternate Israels

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman December 10, 2018January 9, 2019
From "The Punishment of Antiochus" by Gustave Doré
Posted inTorah

What Hanukkah teaches us about the pressure to conform

Rabbi Joel Landau by Rabbi Joel Landau December 6, 2018
an elderly couple, the woman is on the phone
Posted inKids & Family

My buttinsky in-laws exhaust me with their expectations

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler December 5, 2018
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
Amazon's "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," starring Rachel Brosnahan
Posted inTV & Film

Mrs. Maisel is back — and so is ‘Deal or No Deal’

by Nate Bloom November 28, 2018

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