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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
Life is like a river — constantly flowing. (Natalie Weinstein/ J. Staff)
Posted inTorah

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)
Posted inRecipe

Pistachio-date cookies taste like baklava without the work

Micah Siva by Micah Siva April 23, 2025June 19, 2025
(Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inReligion

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)
Posted inObituaries

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

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