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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
(From left) Paolo Lucchesi, San Francisco Chronicle food editor, moderates conversation with Zahav’s Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook (Photo/Courtesy San Francisco Cooking School)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Zahav’s Solomonov swings by S.F. with new book of Israeli cuisine

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 27, 2018September 24, 2019
the title superimposed over a blue-tinted image of a road stretching into the distance at night
Posted inBooks

S.F. author’s short, short stories are long on emotion

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 27, 2018January 9, 2019
7 people gathered around a table
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

Forget mahjong. My favorite game is ‘Counting Jews.’

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz November 27, 2018November 26, 2018

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