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Fulbright scholars McCall Wells, left, and Danielle Elliott are organizing an interfaith seder at the Universidad Camilo José Sela in Villafranca del Castillo, Spain. (Photo/Melissa Marazas)
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Meet the Americans planning a Spanish university’s first-ever Passover seder

by Margarita Gokun Silver March 19, 2018March 19, 2018
From the cover of "The Healthy Jewish Kitchen" by Paula Shoyer
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Paula Shoyer’s ‘Healthy Jewish Kitchen’ is a recipe for Passover joy

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer March 19, 2018March 16, 2018
Faith Kramer's Vegan Moussaka (Photo/Faith Kramer)
Posted inJewish Life

Satisfy all at your seder: egg-free, gluten-free matzah balls and vegan moussaka

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer March 14, 2018
Chelm is a town known in European Jewish folklore as a community of holy fools. (Illustration/F. Halperin's "Khakme Khelm," Warsaw, 1926)
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4 questions to ask of our leaders before Passover

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan March 9, 2018March 8, 2018
Mat Schuster at Canela, his Spanish restaurant in the Castro District of San Francisco
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Passover menu is back at Texas Jew’s Spanish bistro in the Castro

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 9, 2018March 9, 2018
Deana Abramowitz (left) and Miriam Wald baking hamantaschen in 2016 (Photo/Wendy Cohen)
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In Santa Rosa, a 29-year friendship built on hamantaschen 

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 27, 2018February 27, 2018
Faith Kramer's Rustic Hamantaschen Tart with Apricots and Goat Cheese Cheesecake Filling (Photo/Faith Kramer)
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Who needs hamantaschen when this three-cornered apricot goat cheese tart exists?

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer February 26, 2018
"Queen Vashti Deposed" by Ernest Normand (Photo/Wikimedia)
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Hail Queen Vashti! Celebrating Purim in the age of #MeToo

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten February 26, 2018February 26, 2018
These kids at a 2016 Chabad of North Peninsula Purim party turned Purim glam into glam rock. Also: Harry Potter?
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The holiness of Purim lies in glitz, glam and color

Rabbi Adina Allen by Rabbi Adina Allen February 23, 2018February 23, 2018
Homemade Fig Rum, among a number of other booze forms, flowed freely at Urban Adamah's 2018 Tu B'Shevat seder. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
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An adults-only Tu B’Shevat seder — sobering, but hardly sober

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky January 31, 2018February 6, 2018

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