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The seawall and beach in Galveston, Texas, ca. 1910-1920. (Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection at the Library of Congress)
Posted inOff the Shelf

‘Melting Point’: When Zionists turned to Texas

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman June 10, 2025June 11, 2025
One Market's 2024 Latke Festival featured nine unconventional "loaded" latkes. And we got try some of them — for years, this publication's staff Hanukkah party was held at One Market. (Courtesy)
Posted inSmall Bites

A farewell story of One Market’s menschiness

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 6, 2025June 19, 2025
Temple Israel has occupied a variety of buildings over the years, including this one on Hunter Street, seen here in 1905. (Courtesy Western States Jewish History Association)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Gold drew Jews to Stockton. Community kept them there.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 6, 2025June 6, 2025
Boris Fudym (right), owner of New World Market in San Francisco, expounds upon a plate of cured meats as Bex Michelson looks on, May, 18, 2025. (Alix Wall)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

San Francisco’s ‘Little Russia’ draws adventurous foodies

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 5, 2025June 19, 2025
"Samson Puts Down the Pillars" by James Tissot, ca. 1900. The biblical character of Samson is the best known Nazirite.
Posted inTorah

I try to let God walk through every door before I do

by Rabbi Steve Finley June 5, 2025June 5, 2025
Silver coins struck in the late Second Temple period during the reign of Herod the great. (Wikimedia via Glyphmark CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inTorah

Celebrate the miracle of growth this Shavuot

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon May 29, 2025May 29, 2025
Telegrams were a big part of Jewish holiday observance in 1933. (J. Archives)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Not so long ago, Jews absolutely loved to send telegrams

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 28, 2025May 28, 2025
An illustration of the First Temple from a 1922 Bible manual for teachers
Posted inTorah

The Torah seems to understand the psychology of exuberant donors

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen May 22, 2025May 22, 2025
Julie Franklin, registrar and rights and reproductions manager at The Magnes, looks through a box containing documents from the Spanish Inquisition in the documents archive room of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in Berkeley, April 22, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inIdeas

Saving the past for the future: How local Jewish orgs are preserving their history

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 19, 2025January 13, 2026
Deep fried salt cod in tomato sauce
Posted inSmall Bites

A cookbook for dinnertime snackers. Israeli caterer closes. Cucina Hebraica in San Francisco.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 19, 2025June 19, 2025

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