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a slice of cheesecake garnished with pistachios and a strawberry sits on a plate

Nondairy cheesecake for Shavuot starts with cashews

by Micah Siva May 20, 2025June 19, 2025

Students at San Jose State University protested against guest speaker Jeffrey Blutinger, the director of Jewish studies at Cal State Long Beach, who was scheduled to talk about pathways to peace for Israelis and Palestinians on Feb. 19 2024. (Photo/Hagit Shekel)

In their words: This is a fight for basic human rights

by Jennifer Hauth April 25, 2025April 28, 2025

Eight Holocaust survivors, sitting in the front row of the audience at the Yom HaShoah event on April 23, 2025, watch a short film where Holocaust survivors, liberators and their descendants speak about their experiences. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)

Hundreds pay respects as local Holocaust survivors are honored on Yom HaShoah

by Niva Ashkenazi April 24, 2025April 25, 2025

These cookies have the sweetness and flavor of baklava and none of the stickiness. (Micah Siva)

Pistachio-date cookies taste like baklava without the work

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)

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."

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

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)

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

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)

For a second year, Jews mark Festival of Freedom as hostages remain in Gaza

by Philissa Cramer April 11, 2025April 11, 2025

Stephen Miller in 2016 (Wikimedia/Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0)

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

by Rabbi Jay Michaelson April 9, 2025April 9, 2025