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Rabbi Ari Cartun's family having Shabbat dinner together, March 2020.
Posted inAct Two

Pandemic Shabbats offer lessons to carry forward

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent April 8, 2021
Posted inOff the Shelf

New books: Grandkids of Holocaust survivors grapple with trauma and silence

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman April 7, 2021June 9, 2021
Members of Karen Galatz’s family on her father’s side.
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

Am I a Galatz from Galați? Part 2

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz April 6, 2021
Randi Weingarten during a March 9 Zoom call with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Posted inColumns, Opinion

Randi Weingarten has a vision to get kids back to school — and strong words for Jews who say unions are the obstacle

Laura E. Adkins by Laura E. Adkins and JTA April 5, 2021April 5, 2021
This Western Scrub Jay  visited during Janet Silver Ghent's outdoor Passover seder. (Photo/Phoenix Podell)
Posted inAct Two

Yellow-bellied fluffernutter and the bluebird of Passover

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent April 2, 2021
a 19th century painting of the scene
Posted inColumns

Emerging from Covid is our parting-of-the-Red-Sea moment

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg April 2, 2021April 1, 2021
(Photo/Flickr-lawriecate CC BY 2.0)
Posted inMixed & Matched

At a loss after my rabbi said I’m not allowed to read Torah

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler April 1, 2021
(Photo/pxfuel.com)
Posted inParenting

Another Covid summer, a whole new set of parenting questions

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein March 30, 2021March 31, 2021
George Segal in a 1965 publicity shot. (Photo/JTA-Silver Screen Collection-Hulton Archive-Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

Farewell to Yaphet, George and Jessica; Ilana Glazer is expecting (a movie and a baby); etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 29, 2021March 26, 2021
Spencer Brodie (left) will be opening Matriarch Café as part of the Food Oasis, a project at the Palo Alto JCC spearheaded by Rabbi Joey Felsen (right).
Posted inOrganic Epicure

All-kosher ‘Food Oasis’ on the horizon at Palo Alto JCC

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 26, 2021

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