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Torah specifically protects day laborers. Why won’t we?

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon September 4, 2025September 4, 2025
LJ Bernstein blows a shofar at an Or Shalom Jewish Community picnic in Marx Meadows in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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Free and low-cost Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services in the Bay Area 2025

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Find family-friendly fun and volunteer projects in the Bay Area for High Holidays

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These hands-on activities can get kids excited for High Holidays

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Magnes exhibit traces the flow of water through centuries of Jewish life

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After two decades in former YWCA, Palo Alto’s Etz Chayim modernizes

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