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Passover

This Passover, as in every year, new haggadahs abound.
Posted inKids & Family

New haggadahs for 2020: nationalism, artistry, the environment and more

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 11, 2020March 12, 2020
"Chad Godyo" illusration by El Lissitzky (Courtesy/The Magnes, UC Berkeley)
Posted inPassover

Rare early Soviet-era illustrations of ‘One Little Goat’ seder song at Magnes

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller August 22, 2019August 22, 2019
From “Seder-Masochism,” a meandering animated musical exploration of the Passover seder
Posted inTV & Film

‘Sita’ director returns with energetic, meandering, musical meditation on Passover seder

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky July 12, 2019July 17, 2019
Jewlia Eisenberg leads a song at the JeWitch Collective’s “Song of Songs Seder Celebrating Queer Sexuality” in the yurt at Urban Adamah in Berkeley, May 19. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inJew in the Pew

Magic, sex and blessings at an unconventional seder in Berkeley

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky June 12, 2019June 14, 2019
(From left) Andrea Trippen, Marlene Straus and Jacob Trippen in front of the Jewish preschool, Jewish senior housing and JCC in Cologne, Germany
Posted inUncategorized

Reunited at last — meeting the German family that saved mine

Rabbi Andrew Straus by Rabbi Andrew Straus June 10, 2019June 10, 2019
The ark doors at Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin, Texas, mimic an ancient depiction of the Hebrew calendar. (Photo/Rabbi Neil Blumofe)
Posted inTorah

I’m using this space to write about time

Rabbi Stacy Friedman by Rabbi Stacy Friedman May 16, 2019May 16, 2019
In the aftermath of the Six-Day War, a huge crowd streamed toward the Western Wall. (Courtesy/Linda Kurtz)
Posted inYom HaZikaron

The journey from Passover to Israel Independence Day

Shlomi Kofman by Shlomi Kofman May 7, 2019May 7, 2019
From the cover of "Artisan Breads Every Day" by Peter Reinhart
Posted inUncategorized

Passover has passed. Let’s bake some bread.

Chana Scop by Chana Scop April 29, 2019
a vivid painting of a goat in the desert
Posted inTorah

Ready or not, here are (another) Four Questions

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan April 25, 2019
A 19th-century Ukrainian art print of a family seder
Posted inPassover

On Passover, remembering the past means imagining the future

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg April 18, 2019

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