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These cookies have the sweetness and flavor of baklava and none of the stickiness. (Micah Siva)
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Pistachio-date cookies taste like baklava without the work

Micah Siva by Micah Siva April 23, 2025June 19, 2025
Israeli flags were in abundance at a rally in San Francisco's Union Square on  Sept. 18, 2023. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inYouth Voice

In their words: My support for Israel goes beyond its mere existence

by Brody Jake Friedeberg April 22, 2025April 22, 2025
God took the Jewish people out of Egypt to change their inner lives, which is far harder than crossing a sea.


Concept art of Moses splitting the Red Sea in "The Prince of Egypt."
Posted inTorah

The Exodus transformed us into a people who could make our own choices

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf April 17, 2025April 17, 2025
A 300-pound plaster sphinx head from Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 film "The Then Commandments," which was buried along with the rest of the set under the sand at Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes for almost a century. (Courtesy Dunes Center)
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10 things to do with your kids during Passover in the Bay Area

by J. Staff April 15, 2025April 16, 2025
Three men, one very young and two very old, light candles in front of a packed auditorium
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Bay Area events for Yom HaShoah and Israel Memorial Day

by J. Staff April 14, 2025April 21, 2025
In this year's Asufa Haggadah, an annual production with art by dozens of Israeli artists, multiple illustrations show seder tables with empty yellow chairs, symbols of the hostages in Gaza. (Philissa Cramer/JTA)
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For a second year, Jews mark Festival of Freedom as hostages remain in Gaza

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer April 11, 2025April 11, 2025
Stephen Miller in 2016 (Wikimedia/Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

Stephen Miller’s cavalier cruelty misses the whole point of Passover

Rabbi Jay Michaelson by Rabbi Jay Michaelson April 9, 2025April 9, 2025
The congregation exits a Black church in Pittsburgh in 1941. (Jack Delano/Farm Security Administration)
Posted inOpinion

Why I’m holding my Seder in a historic Black church

Tamar Manasseh by Tamar Manasseh April 8, 2025April 8, 2025
A 19th-century Ukrainian art print of a family seder
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The Passover seder is a model for healing democracies in peril

Rabbi Meesh Hammer-Kossoy by Rabbi Meesh Hammer-Kossoy April 7, 2025April 7, 2025
Spanikomatzah – or a matzah spanikopita. (Micah Siva)
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Matzah Madness recipe contest winner: ‘Spanikomatzah’ — an unleavened take on a Greek classic

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 4, 2025April 21, 2025

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