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Yemeni-inspired vegetable soup with chickpea flour dumplings. (Micah Siva)
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Yemeni Hawaij spice blend warms this flavorful dumpling soup 

Micah Siva by Micah Siva December 24, 2025December 24, 2025
OpenAI is the company behind ChatGPT. (Focal Photo via Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)
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How the next generation of rabbis is preparing for the age of AI

Louis Keene by Louis Keene December 24, 2025December 24, 2025
"Joseph Makes Himself Known to His Brethren," ca. 1900 by James Tissot
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Jewish universalism or Jewish particularism? It’s a false choice

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg December 24, 2025December 23, 2025
a lit memorial candle with a Sinai Memorial Chapel logo on it
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Death announcements for the week of Dec. 19, 2025

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Mazel tov to Judy Gottesman, Jackie Grossman, Alicia Lieberman, Ruthanne Ranz Appell, Esther Stone and Andrea Zanko!
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There are two Chinese joints around the corner from the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland! (Thomas Hawk via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)
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Chinese food and a movie on Christmas? Here are our Bay Area recs

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"Joseph Interprets Dreams While in Prison" by James Tissot, ca. 1900.
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In the Torah, as in our world today, everyone is capable of change

Rabbi George Altshuler by Rabbi George Altshuler December 18, 2025December 19, 2025
Melissa Saxe Blaustein and David Saxe asked their wedding guests to donate to four Bay Area art institutions instead of giving traditional gifts. (Courtesy Radostina Boseva)
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How we turned our wedding into a celebration of tzedakah

Melissa Blaustein (Courtesy)David Saxe (Courtesy) by Melissa Saxe Blaustein and David Saxe December 17, 2025December 17, 2025
Norman Podhoretz
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Norman Podhoretz, Commentary editor and archetypal Jewish neoconservative, dies at 95

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