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a lit memorial candle with a Sinai Memorial Chapel logo on it
Posted inObituaries

Death announcements for the week of April 18, 2025

by J. Staff April 17, 2025April 17, 2025
Frances Kunkel gazes upon her works during a lesson on making pickles at Or Shalom Jewish Community in San Francisco, March 24, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Why are pickles such a big hit with S.F. religious school kids?

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 16, 2025June 3, 2025
From left, Marc Mazer, Susan Talon-Mazer, Rabbi Dan Goldblatt and Zoë Francesca Goldblatt of the AriYael Jewish Healing Center. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inReligion

A Bay Area Jewish healing center expands as it embraces mourning, celebration

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz April 15, 2025April 16, 2025
A 300-pound plaster sphinx head from Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 film "The Then Commandments," which was buried along with the rest of the set under the sand at Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes for almost a century. (Courtesy Dunes Center)
Posted inPassover

10 things to do with your kids during Passover in the Bay Area

by J. Staff April 15, 2025April 16, 2025
Three men, one very young and two very old, light candles in front of a packed auditorium
Posted inHolidays

Bay Area events for Yom HaShoah and Israel Memorial Day

by J. Staff April 14, 2025April 21, 2025
A 19th-century drawing of the Tabernacle and the camp (19th Century drawing)
Posted inTorah

Jews have always sought new ways to express gratitude

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon April 10, 2025April 10, 2025
The congregation exits a Black church in Pittsburgh in 1941. (Jack Delano/Farm Security Administration)
Posted inOpinion

Why I’m holding my Seder in a historic Black church

Tamar Manasseh by Tamar Manasseh April 8, 2025April 8, 2025
A 19th-century Ukrainian art print of a family seder
Posted inOpinion

The Passover seder is a model for healing democracies in peril

Rabbi Meesh Hammer-Kossoy by Rabbi Meesh Hammer-Kossoy April 7, 2025April 7, 2025
Spanikomatzah – or a matzah spanikopita. (Micah Siva)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Matzah Madness recipe contest winner: ‘Spanikomatzah’ — an unleavened take on a Greek classic

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 4, 2025April 21, 2025
Helene Radano’s No-Bake Matzah Napoleon (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inRecipe

In Matzah Madness contest runners-up, matzah is basis for two indulgent desserts

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer April 4, 2025April 21, 2025

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