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Marchers cross the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march. (Rabbi Amy Eilberg)
Posted inTorah

‘Despair is not a strategy’: Marching in Selma, 60 years later

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg March 20, 2025March 20, 2025
Mary Ann Salinas holds up two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, Dec. 21, 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inFrom the Archives

‘Don’t kiss the mezuzah’ and other sage advice from the early days of the Covid pandemic

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett March 17, 2025March 21, 2025
Rory Kandel has a hit on her hands with the Rory's Bakehouse cookie kit, which contains a half-dozen giant chocolate chip cookies ready to bake at home. (Emma Kruch/Emma K Creative)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Napa baker finds her sweet spot with bake-at-home cookie kits

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 14, 2025June 19, 2025
"The Golden Calf," c. 1896–1902 by James Tissot
Posted inTorah

Let’s be real: It’s hard for people to believe in an invisible God

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein March 13, 2025March 13, 2025
A Megillah at the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens, 2013. (Tilemahos Efthimiadis via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inTorah

Purim, our most radical holiday, rejects fatalism and fear

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg March 6, 2025March 7, 2025
R.U.R. performed in France in 1924. (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inFrom the Archives

1920s play about willful robots may have presaged risks of artificial intelligence

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 5, 2025March 7, 2025
Detail of a print from the Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible illustrations in the possession of the Rev. Philip De Vere at St. George’s Court, Kidderminster, England.
Posted inTorah

Tabernacle’s construction can become a north star for faith in God, ourselves

Rabbi George Altshuler by Rabbi George Altshuler February 27, 2025February 25, 2025
Hélène Jawhara Piñer's recipes include (from left) hummus with caramelized eggplant, stuffed eggplant with honey and labneh, and labneh with pomegranate seeds. (Courtesy)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Sephardic culinary historian seeks to win over matzah skeptics

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 21, 2025June 19, 2025
A 1907 postcard depicts the Israelites gathered at the foot of Mount Sinai.
Posted inTorah

Even one of Judaism’s most cryptic rules can lead to personal revelations

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon February 20, 2025February 20, 2025
a very rough line sketch of a pig on a parchment-like background
Posted inOff the Shelf

Award-winning book on Jews and pigs roots through ancient taboo

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman February 19, 2025February 19, 2025

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