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Esther Thorpe, left, identifies as non-binary and had a gender-neutral b'nei mitzvah ceremony with the help of rabbinical student Gabriel Webber.
 (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Miriam Taylor Thorpe)
Posted inJewish Life

Non-binary teen’s gender-neutral b’nai mitzvah was ‘a big responsibility’

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten March 5, 2018March 5, 2018
Drew Himmelstein misses her old synagogue — where she didn't feel hidden away at "family programming." (Photo/file)
Posted inColumns

On shul-shopping with kids. Why silo us off into ‘family programming’?

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein February 7, 2018February 8, 2018
Statue of John Wesley, on whose teachings Methodist Christianity was founded, in Wesley Square at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky (Photo/Wikimedia-TheBigGiant)
Posted inColumns

How can we raise our boys as Jews with Christian heritage?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler January 29, 2018February 8, 2018
Parenting columnist Nicki Gilbert after her first zipline experience
Posted inColumns

How my kids push me past my fears and out of my comfort zone

by Nicki Gilbert January 25, 2018
(File photo)
Posted inNews

$788k for early Jewish childhood programs around the Bay

by J. Staff January 21, 2018January 23, 2018
Doris Sperber at her 110th birthday party, Jan. 18, 2018  (Photo/Dan Pine)
Posted inJewish Life

The Bay Area’s oldest Jew? Meet Doris Sperber, who just had her 110th birthday

by Dan Pine January 19, 2018January 23, 2018
Drag queen performer Jenayah De Rosario will be featured at a havdalah ceremony at the Lander Grinspoon Academy in Northampton, Mass. (Photo/Courtesy De Rosario; collage/JTA)
Posted inJewish Life

This Jewish day school’s drag queen havdalah ceremony has S.F. roots

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten January 19, 2018January 19, 2018
King Friday: a benevolent monarch who also holds referenda regarding such crucial issues as playground equipment
Posted inColumns

Making sense of ‘Daniel Tiger,’ ‘Babar’ and our kids’ other baffling TV universes

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein January 12, 2018March 23, 2018
Alan Cordova and Maliha Khan at the conclusion of their Muslim-Jewish wedding (Photo/Amelia Soper)
Posted inColumns

The best Jewish-American-Muslim-Pakistani wedding ever

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 7, 2018January 10, 2018
Children exploring the Brooklyn Children’s Museum
(Photo/Flickr-Brooklyn Children’s Museum CC BY 2.0)
Posted inColumns

In kid-friendly Brooklyn, realizing the parenting resources missing from S.F.

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein December 11, 2017December 11, 2017

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