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Sukkot is the perfect intro to Judaism for your boyfriend

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler October 1, 2017September 29, 2017
"Turkey neck, jowls, no matter how you try not to, you get them."
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Posted inColumns

So what’s the big deal?

Barbara Rose Brooker by Barbara Rose Brooker October 1, 2017October 3, 2017
Walter Benjamin's membership card for the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1940). "It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us," he wrote. (Wikimedia CC0)
Posted inColumns

Can we find hope in these times? Perhaps. Together.

by Rabbi Aubrey Glazer September 28, 2017
Justin Frank Polgar and Zoë Segal (AKA the Minister of Chocolate and Director of YES) are in love with their botanical chocolate bars.
Posted inColumns

Say ‘YES’ to the Minister of Chocolate’s tasty herbal remedies

Alix Wall by Alix Wall September 28, 2017September 28, 2017
(Photo/Wikimedia-Przemysław Wierzbowski CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inColumns

On cinnamon challah and forgiving myself for parenting missteps

by Nicki Gilbert September 27, 2017September 27, 2017
Thoros of Myr, the drunken Red Priest on "Game of Thrones," is played by Paul Kaye, who met his wife on a kibbutz.
Posted inCulture

Jews of Westeros; ‘Will and Grace’ revival; NFL light on Jews this year

by Nate Bloom September 27, 2017March 23, 2018
A scene from the fourth season of "Transparent" featuring Jeffrey Tambor, left, and Gabi Hoffmann in Israel. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inOpinion

Conan and ‘Transparent’ give Israel the normalcy it craves

by Andrew Silow-Carroll September 26, 2017January 12, 2018
Miriam Lowe (left) and Amy Midanik-Blum admire the Netivot Shalom Yizkor book. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inJewish Life

This first-of-its-kind memorial book brings an entire synagogue’s departed to life

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky September 22, 2017September 20, 2017
Chelm is a town known in European Jewish folklore as a community of holy fools. (Illustration/F. Halperin's "Khakme Khelm," Warsaw, 1926)
Posted inColumns

It’s hard to look back in regret with a stiff neck

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan September 22, 2017September 20, 2017
A depiction of kosher poultry slaughtering, Shalom Koboshvili, 1940
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I am 10 years old. How can I get my family to keep kosher?

Jonathan Harris by Jonathan Harris September 18, 2017

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