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Fig and halloumi cheese kale salad. (Micah Siva)
Posted inRecipe

Give a fig, and use this sacred fruit in a savory halloumi salad

Micah Siva by Micah Siva October 6, 2025October 6, 2025
a lit memorial candle with a Sinai Memorial Chapel logo on it
Posted inObituaries

Death announcements for the week of Oct. 3, 2025

by J. Staff October 3, 2025September 30, 2025
(Photo/Flickr-María Helena Carey CC BY-ND 2.0)
Posted inJewish Life

Lifecycles announcements for the week of Oct. 3, 2025

by J. Staff October 3, 2025October 6, 2025
Jewish Heritage Night with the San Francisco Giants was held on Sept. 9 at Oracle Park. (Don Collier/San Francisco Giants)
Posted inOur Crowd

Happenings, honors, awards, comings and goings, opportunities — October 2025

Rahel Knight (Courtesy) by Rahel Knight October 3, 2025October 4, 2025
Attendees of a Wilderness Torah gathering for Sukkot perform a version of the ancient Simchat Beit Hashoeivah ritual in 2022. (Julia Maryanska/Courtesy Wilderness Torah)
Posted inLocal Voice

After Oct. 7, Sukkot forces us to balance pain and celebration

by Zion Nadav September 30, 2025September 30, 2025
prayerbook, shofar and stringed instrument
Posted inReligion

The Kitchen’s new siddur blends Ashkenazi and Sephardic liturgy, a first

by Dan Pine September 29, 2025September 30, 2025
Memorials at the Nova festival site near Kibbutz Re'im where nearly 370 people were killed and another 40 were taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023. (Chanan Tigay/J. Staff)
Posted inJewish Life

Find memorial events in Bay Area for the second anniversary of Oct. 7

Rahel Knight (Courtesy) by Rahel Knight September 29, 2025October 3, 2025
Bagels from Loveski were crowned best in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Chronicle. Does that sound right to you? (File photo)
Posted inSmall Bites

The Bay Area bagel debate continues. Meat Carnival returns. Etc.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall September 26, 2025September 26, 2025
Tad Taube's philanthropy stretched from the Bay Area across the U.S. and all the way to Israel and his native Poland. (Joyce Goldschmid)
Posted inObituaries

Tad Taube, 94, remembered for his generosity and hope for the Jewish future

by Dan Pine September 25, 2025September 26, 2025
Death of Moses print
Posted inTorah

Moses’ late-in-life lesson: People can change

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein September 25, 2025September 25, 2025

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