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For a heartier dish, add cooked chickpeas before the arugula. (Aaron Levy-Wolins)

This savory layered eggplant and yogurt bake belongs in your Shavuot rotation

by Faith Kramer May 6, 2026May 6, 2026

Community members sing during a Lag Ba’Omer bonfire at Urban Adamah in Berkeley. (Courtesy Sacred Music Fellowship)

Bonfires, drum circles and music at Lag Ba’Omer events around the Bay Area

by Rahel Knight April 29, 2026May 1, 2026

Author Daniel Handler (right), better known as Lemony Snicket, talks about his career with J.'s then-Editor-in-Chief Chanan Tigay during the Jewish Arts & Bookfest at the Magnes in 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)

Upcoming events: Mizrahi music, Jewish book fest, Lag Ba’Omer bonfires

by Rahel Knight April 28, 2026April 28, 2026

Israeli Consul General Marco Sermoneta at a ceremony for Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s memorial day, at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)

Memorial event in Palo Alto turns political as crowd jeers at Israeli consul general

by Emma Goss April 21, 2026April 23, 2026

Menachem Silverstein on stage at the Laugh Factory. (Courtesy)

Upcoming events: Comedy. Coexistence. Bookfest.

by Rahel Knight April 21, 2026April 21, 2026

Varda Morrell lays a photo at the gravesite of her son, Israeli Staff Sgt. Maoz Morell, in 2025. (Courtesy Varda Morell)

At soldiers’ graves, the rows keep growing: Israel’s Memorial Day is shaped by new loss

by Deborah Danan April 21, 2026April 21, 2026

Boaz Cogan (right) hugs Debbie Cogan during a Yom HaAtzmaut celebration at the Addison-Penzak JCC in Los Gatos, April 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)

Israel Independence and Israel Memorial Day events around the Bay Area

by J. Staff April 15, 2026April 15, 2026

S.F. Mayor Daniel Lurie gave the keynote address at the city's Yom HaShoah commemoration at the JCCSF. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)

Holocaust Remembrance Day

How a Nazi bookstore led to S.F.’s Yom HaShoah observance and the ‘courage to act’

by Niva Ashkenazi April 14, 2026April 14, 2026

Jeanette Ringold speaks often about being a hidden child and how she learned what really happened. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)

Honoring the Survivors

Dutch ‘hidden child’ had to piece together her own story

by Lea Loeb April 14, 2026April 17, 2026

Shulamith performing at a Seder in Rome, Italy, 1971. Left to Right: Rachel Neiman, Rina Neiman, Shulamith Dubno Neiman, Becky Neiman, David Neiman. (Courtesy Rina Neiman)

Her dresses, now archived, tell Israeli and Arab fashion history

by Niva Ashkenazi April 13, 2026April 14, 2026