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Director Rob Reiner in a discussion following a screening of the film "LBJ" at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 (Jay Godwin)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Rob Reiner told J. he saw political activism through a Jewish lens

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 16, 2025December 17, 2025
Cookin’ owner Judith Kaminsky stands in her kitchen supply store in San Francisco. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Cookin’ is ready to sell its last Jello-O molds and meat grinders

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 12, 2025December 12, 2025
Judah and Tamar
Posted inTorah

Is Judah, our namesake, the hero we want him to be?

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon December 11, 2025December 11, 2025
Gadi Cohen shaves off beef shawarma
Posted inSmall Bites

Shawarma joint closes. Washington Post’s new food critic. Etc.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 5, 2025December 5, 2025
"Jacob Wrestling with the Angel," 1855 by Gustave Doré
Posted inTorah

What’s in two names? Two versions of Jacob’s destiny

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen December 4, 2025December 4, 2025
Red bean babka has arrived. (Calvin Hu/Courtesy Mamahuhu)
Posted inSmall Bites

Sesame red bean babka is the ultimate Chinese-Jewish food collab

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 3, 2025December 4, 2025
In the 1940s, we often wrote of "the Palestine Problem."
Posted inFrom the Archives

A second look back at 130 years of our publication

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 2, 2025December 2, 2025
At left is Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in "Wicked." At right is the Jewish poet Süßkind von Trimberg, depicted wearing a Jewish hat in the 14th-century Codex Manesse.
Posted inTorah

What ‘Wicked’ and the Talmud say about Jewish headwear

Rabbi Daniel Stein by Rabbi Daniel Stein November 26, 2025November 26, 2025
A recipe for carrot-cardamom loaf cake with a cream cheese glaze is found in "Dead in the Kitchen: The Official Grateful Dead Cookbook" by Gabi Moskowitz. (Mary Lagier/Courtesy Weldon Owen)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Sample the devil’s lettuce with new Grateful Dead cookbook

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 25, 2025January 9, 2026
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

A trip through 13 decades of this paper’s archives, and a happy 130th to us

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 21, 2025November 21, 2025

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