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The seder plate at last year's “Coming Home: A Sensual Seder for Love and Liberation” event. (Courtesy Mira Stern)
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This seder leans on sensory experiences and a ‘liberation chic’ dress code

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 3, 2026April 6, 2026
One of the documents translated by AI is a book, handwritten likely by a Baghdadi youth in 5603 (1902 or 1903). The book features prayers, poems and a haggadah that translates the Hebrew to Judeo-Arabic. These pages show a portion of The Four Questions. (Courtesy Voices from the Archive)
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Oakland man’s AI platform unlocks a treasure trove of Iraqi Jewish history

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 27, 2026March 27, 2026
Daniel Jontof-Hutter "catches" Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3), which was brightly visible in October 2024. (Courtesy)
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He spends his days searching for Earth-like planets beyond our solar system

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 25, 2026February 25, 2026
Shanghai was home to a sizable number of Jewish refugees during the war. (SS Young via Wikimedia Commons)
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Yiddish-speaking Chinese professor studies the roots of antisemitism in China

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb February 23, 2026February 24, 2026
One of the learning features on Virtual Tikkun is color-coded trope. (Courtesy)
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From scroll to screen: A new digital tool seeks to aid Torah chanters

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb February 10, 2026February 10, 2026
A family in the Seduva shtetl, captured before the world they knew disappeared. The Lost Shtetl Museum offers an intimate look at religious, civic and cultural life in communities like these. (The Lost Shtetl Museum/collection of Anat Rosen)
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Echoes of a lost shtetl: How sound is recreating a vanished Jewish world

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz January 26, 2026January 26, 2026
A depiction of the Jewish community slaughterhouse in a courtyard in Fürth, Germany. (Paul Christian Kirchner, Jüdisches Ceremoniel [Jewish Ceremonies], ed. Sebastian Jacob Jungendres (Nuremberg, 1724))
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Berkeley prof sticks a fork in German Jewish culture with a history of meat

by Sue Fishkoff January 20, 2026January 20, 2026
From left, the Fool, Magician and Popess cards from the 1650 Jean Noblet Tarot deck, which Stav Appel contends is full of hidden Jewish symbolism. (Courtesy)
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‘Torah in the Tarot’ author: Jews hid meaning in cards during times of persecution

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb January 13, 2026January 14, 2026
New Lehrhaus executive director Robby Adler Peckerar teaches a Yiddishkayt tour group in Białystok, Poland. (Courtesy)
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New Lehrhaus merges with L.A.’s Yiddishkayt, expands its course catalog

by Julie Zigoris January 5, 2026January 6, 2026
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, who is also a cantor, performs "Over the Rainbow" at the end of her Dec. 3 event at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. (Courtesy JCCSF/Justin Halgren)
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In S.F., first Asian American rabbi describes how she found her ‘truest home’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 4, 2025December 5, 2025

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