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Shoshana, Yossi and Dan Fendel will teach at the East Bay JCC's Tikkun Leyl Shavuot
Posted inReligion

Three generations pulling Shavuot all-nighter in Berkeley

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 6, 2019
Christina Applegate (on couch) plays recent widow Jen, who meets Judy (Linda Cardellini) at a grief support group, in Netflix’s “Dead to Me.”
Posted inCulture

‘Dead to Me’: The next must-watch show for Jewish women

Lior Zaltzman by Lior Zaltzman May 30, 2019
a door at the end of a plain hallway is a ajar
Posted inColumns

Virginia Woolf was right. I deserve a room of my own. (The kids can share one.)

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein May 29, 2019
Stumbling blocks (stolpersteine in German) commemorate the victims of the Holocaust by marking where each person lived, the date they were deported and the date they were murdered. (Photo/Julie Levine)
Posted inParenting

So much anti-Semitism, and a trip I will never forget

by Julie Levine May 13, 2019May 13, 2019
a pile of paper and plastic trash, much of it with red duct tape barely holding it together
Posted inKids & Family

My 6-year-old’s beloved trash heap

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein May 2, 2019May 2, 2019
three dogs roll around in the grass playing
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

Jews don’t own dogs? Says who?

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz May 1, 2019May 3, 2019
a snowplow plowing through snow
Posted inColumns

Helicopter parenting, snowplow parenting — we’re doing our best

by Julie Levine April 23, 2019
The co-creators of the Possibly-Largest-Seder-Plate in-the-World at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, 2014. (Photo/Courtesy Judy Massarano)
Posted inPassover

Is this Berkeley seder ‘plate’ the world’s largest?

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 17, 2019April 16, 2019
a generic image of a girl reading from the Torah
Posted inLifecycles

Readers offer alternatives for 11-year-old who wants bat mitzvah, but would be starting from scratch

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler April 16, 2019
(Photo/Pixabay)
Posted inParenting

The consequences of unwanted advice to new moms

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein April 10, 2019

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