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Roasted Pears with Almond Filling (Photo/Faith Kramer)
Posted inRecipe

Tu B’Shevat eats: The new year for the trees calls for roasted fruits

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer January 25, 2021
Chinese diplomat Feng Shan Ho, seen here in China in 1947, is one of many foreign diplomats who helped Jews escape the Holocaust.
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

To the diplomats who risked their lives to save Jews, we say thank you

Shlomi Kofman by Shlomi Kofman January 22, 2021
The new Holocaust Museum of Porto, Portugal, is set to open Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Jewish Community of Porto)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

Jewish community shaped by the Inquisition opens Portugal’s first Holocaust museum

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA January 13, 2021January 13, 2021
Screenshot from a KPIX segment on the donation.
Posted inPhilanthropy

East Bay synagogues donate 232,000 meals to food bank

by J. Staff December 24, 2020December 24, 2020
(Illustration/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inHolidays

My Jewish family has spent every Christmas with our close Catholic friends since 1966

Sarah Jae Leiber by Sarah Jae Leiber and JTA December 23, 2020December 28, 2020
Bonbons from Delphinium. (Photo/Courtesy Delphinium)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Turkish-trained pastry chef Sasha Yilmaz-Ward’s pandemic plan: stay in the kitchen and make bonbons

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 23, 2020December 23, 2020
(Photo/Pixabay CC0)
Posted inHolidays

Objections to my advice for a son who doesn’t want to do Christmas

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler December 22, 2020
Marilyn Heiss is a regular volunteer in Glide Memorial Church's meal program — which is where she'll be on Christmas.
Posted inHolidays

Even Christmas is different for Jews this pandemic year

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 21, 2020December 21, 2020
One last look at some of the menorahs at the end of the "Menorah Memories" event, Dec. 16, 2020.
Posted inHanukkah

Sharing ‘Menorah Memories’ with J. and Value Culture

by J. Staff December 17, 2020
a lit menorah
Posted inOpinion

From a dark 2020 to a shining 2021

by J. Editorial Board December 17, 2020December 17, 2020

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