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Solmon's Deli bagel board: everything bagel, lox, capers, tomato, pickles and more
Posted inJewish Life

Solomon’s Deli opens in the beet-ing heart of Davis

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 10, 2018July 11, 2018
Rainbow-colored challah at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav's 2018 Pride Shabbat. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inColumns

Pride Shabbat is this LGBTQ synagogue’s highest holiday

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky July 6, 2018June 26, 2020
Pinchas gets a little stabby in this week's Torah portion. But does the Torah say that's OK?
Posted inTorah

Does the Torah sanction acts of zealotry?

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon July 5, 2018July 5, 2018
L’Chaim Foods founder Alex Shandrovsky and his partner, chef Alex Kim
Posted inUncategorized

‘Sushi rabbi’ heads for Israel as L’Chaim begins to train ex-cons and homeless

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 2, 2018July 2, 2018
Posted inColumns

I found religion. My partner left it. What will happen to our kids?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler June 29, 2018
Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto
Posted inColumns, Religion, Jewish Life, Torah

An ode to those who outwit tyrants

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan June 28, 2018
Paul Rudd on the set of "Ant-Man and The Wasp"
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Rudd returns as Ant-Man; what to watch after Bourdain; an award for Neil Diamond

by Nate Bloom June 26, 2018
Children and workers at a tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, June 19, 2018 (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Posted inColumns

Looking to a 16-year-old border detainee for a ray of humanity

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein June 25, 2018
How much does the Bible really care about this red cow?
Posted inColumns

Does the Torah mean what it says literally?

Rabbi Joel Landau by Rabbi Joel Landau June 22, 2018June 25, 2018
From the cover of "The One-Bottle Cocktail" by Maggie Hoffman
Posted inColumns

Maggie Hoffman’s fab ‘One-Bottle Cocktail’ for the home bartender

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 20, 2018March 13, 2019

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