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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
a classical painting of two young men discussing something secretively by candlelight
Posted inTorah

Esau’s plight encourages us to see our ‘enemy’ as human

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg November 20, 2025November 20, 2025
Big Finish Wine Tavern proprietor Adam Manson’s great-grandfather founded Louis Rich Foods, a brand name still in the market today. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

At new S.F. wine bar, you can taste the final frontier

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 18, 2025November 18, 2025
"Rebecca and Eliezer" by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, ca. 1660 — a scene from this week's Torah portion, Chayei Sarah.
Posted inTorah

Life follows death as Abraham makes a key real estate purchase

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein November 13, 2025November 13, 2025

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