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"Queen Vashti Deposed" by Ernest Normand (Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inJewish Life

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?
Posted inColumns

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)
Posted inColumns

An adults-only Tu B’Shevat seder — sobering, but hardly sober

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky January 31, 2018February 6, 2018
Ice cream 'bark'! Perfect for Tu B'Shevat
Posted inFood

Trees and ‘bark’ for an enchanting Tu B’Shevat meal

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer January 26, 2018January 25, 2018
A Wilderness Torah event (Photo/file)
Posted inTu Bishvat

Tu B’Shevat in the Bay means Tu B’Shevat in the redwoods

by Rob Gloster January 23, 2018March 23, 2018
Home for Hanukkah with the Gilberts
Posted inJewish Life

Twinkling holiday lights overshadow my Jewish center

by Nicki Gilbert December 17, 2017December 15, 2017
Israeli Golden State Warriors player Omri Casspi joins S.F. Chabad Rabbi Yosef Langer to light the menorah after the Warriors beat Dallas on the team's annual Jewish Heritage Night, Dec. 14, 2017 (Photo/Courtesy Golden State Warriors)
Posted inNews

Led by Omri Casspi, Warriors beat Dallas and light the menorah

by Rob Gloster December 15, 2017
Rabbi David Kaufman and his wife, Julie, attending the White House Hanukkah party in Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2017. (Photo/Courtesy Rabbi David Kaufman)
Posted inUncategorized

I was the only Reform rabbi at the Trump Hanukkah party

Rabbi David Kaufman by Rabbi David Kaufman December 15, 2017
You're seriously trying to tell us this isn't Christian?
Posted inHolidays

How to tell people you’re perfectly fine without Christmas

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler December 15, 2017
A protester and sheriff’s deputy near at the Standing Rock protest in 2016 (Photo/Nanette Phillips)
Posted inOpinion

Standing Rock, Hanukkah, and miracles of resistance against tyranny

Ami Goodman by Ami Goodman December 14, 2017December 14, 2017

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