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Fresh everything bagels at Bageltopia in Berkeley, May 10, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

At Bageltopia, a former bagel wholesaler goes retail with creative menu

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 17, 2024May 23, 2024
(Photo/Lukas Medvedevas via pexels.com)
Posted inTorah

This Torah portion teaches that we can’t go it alone — and we don’t need to

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein May 16, 2024May 16, 2024
A shawarma-stuffed pita at the newly reopened Hummus Bodega in San Francisco on May 14, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inSmall Bites

Hummus Bodega reopens in San Francisco; Babka popups around the Bay; Ode to Sammy’s Roumanian in Santa Rosa

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 15, 2024May 23, 2024
Gratz Cohen grew up in a slaveholding Jewish family in Georgia and fought for the Confederacy. (Photo/Courtesy Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation State Historic Site)
Posted inOff the Shelf

S.F. author reckons with Southern Jews’ slave ownership in ‘Liberty Street’

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 15, 2024May 16, 2024
Janet Silver Ghent and husband Allen Podell. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inAct Two

I was part of the Silent Generation but never learned to keep my mouth shut

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent May 14, 2024May 19, 2024
A 1690 illustration of the constellation Taurus, this Hebrew month's ruling sign, by Johannes Hevelius.
Posted inAstrolojew

A month of healing — just what we need

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude May 8, 2024May 8, 2024
Signs protesting the Gaza war, including some that accuse Israel of apartheid, are laid out on the sidewalk in front of San Francisco City Hall on Dec. 5, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inFrom the Archives

In the ‘80s, Jews protested and camped out against apartheid — and it worked

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 6, 2024May 6, 2024
San Francisco's Marina District was hit hard by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. (Photo/Eve Fraser-Corp via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

Like us, ancient Israelites divided time into ‘before’ and ‘after’ trauma

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf May 2, 2024
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Posted inOrganic Epicure

Palo Alto gets two very different new kosher restaurants

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 26, 2024April 28, 2024
These pages from the Birds' Head Haggadah (Southern Germany, ca. 1300) show part of the lyrics of Dayeinu. (Photo/Wikimedia user Sodabottle CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inTorah

Dayeinu: The concept of ‘enough’ is especially challenging this year

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon April 25, 2024April 25, 2024

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