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The iconic song "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen — seen here with a feline friend — is the subject of a new documentary opening soon in the Bay Area. (Photo/Graeme Mitchell-Redux)
Posted inCultured

Hot Jewish Summer: Yiddish album and ‘Hallelujah’ doc will strike a chord

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 21, 2022June 22, 2022
(From left) Chef David Cohen with his partners Jim Foley and Jay Farwell at the opening of Montebello Market.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

New deli and market in Los Gatos imports East Coast nostalgia

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 21, 2022June 22, 2022
People waiting outside Midnite Bagel during the bakery's opening weekend, June 2022. (Photo/Courtesy Midnite Bagel)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Midnite Bagel open in Sunset; Wise Sons reopens on Fillmore; Retired caterer heads abroad

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 20, 2022June 20, 2022
The Rev. William Barber (left) and the Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign, lead a demonstration outside the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 13, 2021. (Photo/RNS-Jack Jenkins)
Posted inTorah

What the Torah has to say about the Poor People’s Campaign march this Shabbat

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg June 17, 2022June 17, 2022
an ornate tea cup on a saucer with a golden spoon
Posted inAct Two

Did our tea-making savvy sink in the Boston Harbor?

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent June 15, 2022
Loveski, the "Jew-ish" deli in Napa's Oxbow Public Market, is bustling. (Photo/Alix Wall)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Loveski deli creates new Jewish traditions with Southeast Asian flavors

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 14, 2022June 17, 2022
Pearl Cohen, born Pearl Ruten, was delighted to read about herself in the J. archives. Right: Pearl at 16 on a date at the Tonga Room.
Posted inFrom the Archives

84-year-old surprised to find her name (and bat mitzvah) in J. archives 

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 13, 2022June 13, 2022
"Samson Puts Down the Pillars" by James Tissot, ca. 1900. The biblical character of Samson is the best known Nazirite.
Posted inTorah

The spiritually solitary have a place in the Jewish world

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein June 10, 2022June 9, 2022
Peter Levitt of Saul's Deli helps prepare sandwiches for Ukrainian refugees with World Central Kitchen in Przemyśl, Poland.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

In Poland, Saul’s Deli chef works the food line for Ukrainian refugees

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 7, 2022June 7, 2022
This photo of the post-earthquake ruins of Temple Emanu-El's original building appeared on the cover of our Sept. 21, 1906 issue.
Posted inFrom the Archives

How this newspaper kept Jews in touch after the 1906 earthquake

by Sue Fishkoff June 6, 2022June 7, 2022

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