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Roasted eggplant
Posted inSmall Bites

Loquat’s eggplant sandwich nights in S.F; Jewish fast-casual in Menlo Park

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 5, 2025May 6, 2025
Like an icebox cake meets tiramisu, this Israeli-inspired dessert is packed with cream cheese and tahini and topped with whipped cream and carob syrup. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inRecipe

This no-bake dessert mimics popular Israeli ‘icebox’ cakes

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer May 2, 2025June 19, 2025
"Miriam Shut Out From the Camp" by James Tissot
Posted inTorah

Why Judaism replaced ritual purity with endless questions

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein May 1, 2025May 1, 2025
a lit memorial candle with a Sinai Memorial Chapel logo on it
Posted inObituaries

Death announcements for the week of May 2, 2025

by J. Staff May 1, 2025May 2, 2025
Mazel tov, Marc Korchin and Roni Silverberg!
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Lifecycles announcements for the week of May 2, 2025

by J. Staff May 1, 2025May 2, 2025
L. John Harris wearing his garlic turban at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in 1979. (Ann Ashley)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Why the ‘Garlic Guy’ cleaves to cloves

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 30, 2025June 19, 2025
Jewish graves at Eternal Home Cemetery in Colma on April 15, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

After a friend’s assisted death, I wonder: Is there a ‘right’ way to die?

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz April 30, 2025April 30, 2025
A deli sandwich as served for a time at Little Red Window by Adam Rosenblum, whose next project, Super Mensch, will also feature deli classics. (File photo)
Posted inSmall Bites

Super Mensch, deli with Jewish-inspired cocktails, coming to S.F.’s Marina

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 29, 2025June 19, 2025
Pomella in Oakland (Courtesy Chris Calderon)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Oakland’s Pomella to close; owner cites costs and Israel war

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 28, 2025June 19, 2025
Olive Koren
Posted inBay Area

Jewish teen, 14, killed in Marin crash; rabbi calls her ‘exuberant, fun-loving’

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 25, 2025April 25, 2025

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