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Life is like a river — constantly flowing. (Natalie Weinstein/ J. Staff)
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Jewish faith isn’t the absence of doubt. It’s the presence of commitment.

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg April 24, 2025April 24, 2025
These cookies have the sweetness and flavor of baklava and none of the stickiness. (Micah Siva)
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Pistachio-date cookies taste like baklava without the work

Micah Siva by Micah Siva April 23, 2025June 19, 2025
(Wikimedia Commons)
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An Israeli think tank used AI to analyze 4,400 American synagogue sermons

Ben Sales by Ben Sales April 23, 2025April 23, 2025
Justice Joseph Grodin leading a family seder in 2016. (Courtesy)
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Joseph Grodin, labor lawyer who served on state’s high court, dies at 94

by J. Staff April 22, 2025April 22, 2025
A 1952 editorial cartoon distributed by  JTA that appeared in the Jewish Bulletin, the former name of this publication.
Posted inFrom the Archives

The 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act put ‘Jewish’ labels on visas

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 22, 2025April 28, 2025
Pope Francis listens to Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni while sitting during his visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome, Italy, Jan. 17, 2016. (Giuseppe Ciccia/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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How Pope Francis advanced Catholic relationship with Jews

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Opening day at Poppy Bagels in Oakland's Temescal neighborhood, Feb. 1, 2022. (Lillian Ilsley-Greene/J. Staff)
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S.F. Jew out on ‘Top Chef’; Bagels in Chronicle’s top 100 restaurants

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 21, 2025April 21, 2025
God took the Jewish people out of Egypt to change their inner lives, which is far harder than crossing a sea.


Concept art of Moses splitting the Red Sea in "The Prince of Egypt."
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The Exodus transformed us into a people who could make our own choices

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf April 17, 2025April 17, 2025
Anita Friedman (left) and Susan Lowenberg (right) at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Western Region Tribute Dinner on March 19, 2025 in Beverly Hills.(Courtesy)
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Happenings, honors, opportunities, comings and goings — April 2025

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 17, 2025April 17, 2025
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