• Readers’ Choice 2025
  • FREE NEWSLETTERS
  • DONATE
  • News
    • Bay Area
    • U.S.
    • Israel
    • World
  • Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Ideas
    • Music
    • On Stage
    • TV & Film
  • Opinion
    • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Letters
  • Jewish Life
    • Lifecycles
    • Obituaries
    • Food
    • Religion
    • Education
    • Kids & Family
    • Seniors
    • Philanthropy
  • Calendar
  • Archives
  • Subscribe | Renew
  • Jewish Resource Guide
  • Facebook Page
  • Instagram

Landing Top

Skip to content
Donate

J.

The Jewish News of Northern California

Donate

J.

The Jewish News of Northern California

  • Readers’ Choice 2025
  • FREE NEWSLETTERS
  • DONATE
  • Facebook Page
  • Instagram
  • News
    • Bay Area
    • U.S.
    • Israel
    • World
  • Culture
    • Art
    • Books
    • Ideas
    • Music
    • On Stage
    • TV & Film
  • Opinion
    • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Letters
  • Jewish Life
    • Lifecycles
    • Obituaries
    • Food
    • Religion
    • Education
    • Kids & Family
    • Seniors
    • Philanthropy
  • Calendar
  • Archives
  • Subscribe | Renew
  • Jewish Resource Guide

Yom Kippur

(Photo/Pixabay CC0)
Posted inOpinion

I won’t be fasting this year because I have an eating disorder

Alex Braun by Alex Braun September 29, 2017
GatherDC is hosting a Yom Kippur event at the Sauf Haus Bier Hall & Garten in the nation's capital. (Photo/Courtesy Sauf Haus Bier Hall & Garten)
Posted inJewish Life

Why is this Orthodox rabbi holding Yom Kippur in a beer garden?

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten September 29, 2017September 29, 2017
Walter Benjamin's membership card for the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1940). "It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us," he wrote. (Wikimedia CC0)
Posted inColumns

Can we find hope in these times? Perhaps. Together.

by Rabbi Aubrey Glazer September 28, 2017
(Photo/Wikimedia-Przemysław Wierzbowski CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inColumns

On cinnamon challah and forgiving myself for parenting missteps

by Nicki Gilbert September 27, 2017September 27, 2017
Joel Osteen preaching at Lakewood Church in Houston, the largest church in America, where services are broadcast around the world (Photo/JTA-Frank E. Lockwood-Lexington Herald Leader-MCT)
Posted inNews

Joel Osteen opens Houston megachurch to flooded synagogue

by JTA September 26, 2017March 19, 2018
Journalists visiting a renovated barrack at Auschwitz, Dec. 1, 2016 (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inNews

Belgian Holocaust denier sentenced to visit Nazi camps and write about it

by JTA September 26, 2017March 19, 2018
Leeks! (Photo/Pixabay CC0)
Posted inCulture

Turkish fritters, leek and plum kugel, poached quince for holiday or any day

Shelly Butcher by Shelly Butcher September 26, 2017September 25, 2017
a melancholy photo of a women looking away holding a flower
Posted inOpinion

Why I won’t forgive my sexual harasser this Yom Kippur

Leora Eisenberg by Leora Eisenberg September 25, 2017
Miriam Lowe (left) and Amy Midanik-Blum admire the Netivot Shalom Yizkor book. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inJewish Life

This first-of-its-kind memorial book brings an entire synagogue’s departed to life

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky September 22, 2017September 20, 2017
Chelm is a town known in European Jewish folklore as a community of holy fools. (Illustration/F. Halperin's "Khakme Khelm," Warsaw, 1926)
Posted inColumns

It’s hard to look back in regret with a stiff neck

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan September 22, 2017September 20, 2017

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 … 8 9 10 11 Older posts

Get J.'s latest headlines sent to your inbox:

MOST POPULAR

Organ donation: One heroic decision can save a life
Years after boycott fight, Ben and Jerry’s Israel debuts flavor celebrating Israeli resilience
Loss of egg-cellence: Why Boichik is discontinuing its beloved egg bagels
Berkeley’s Beth Israel celebrates two decades of rabbi’s leadership
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival’s 2026 lineup: 65 films and an award for Rachel Bloom
  • Facebook Page
  • Instagram

About

  • Mission
  • People
  • Policies
  • Financials
  • Careers

Ways to Give

  • Donate
  • Legacy giving
  • Donors

J. IN PRINT

  • Subscribe or renew
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Change of address
  • Archives

Connect

  • Free Newsletters
  • Jewish Resource Guide
  • Readers’ Choice Awards
  • Advertise

Submissions

  • Contact
  • News Tips
  • Calendar Events
  • Obituaries
  • Lifecyle Events
  • Letters to the Editor
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, see here: Privacy & Cookie Policy
  • © 2026 J.
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
Powered by Newspack