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A plate of risotto on a table
Posted inRecipe

Creamy, plant-based barley risotto is ideal for Tu Bishvat

Micah Siva by Micah Siva February 6, 2025February 6, 2025
a close up of two people's hands holding "chambongs" — which resemble champagne flute glasses, but are held at an angle with the stem curving away from the glass as a straw
Posted inOrganic Epicure

How a wine bar’s Vietnamese chef and Jewish manager came to love each other’s cultures

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 5, 2025February 6, 2025
Diplomats, elected officials and community members attend a ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, 2025, at the Holocaust Memorial at the California Legion of Honor in San Francisco. (Courtesy Teresa Drenick/AJC)
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

I found the hope I need right now in the founding of the War Refugee Board

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz February 4, 2025February 5, 2025
A fruit tart sitting on a table
Posted inRecipe

This coconut tart with symbolic fruits is a vegan Tu Bishvat dream

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer February 3, 2025February 3, 2025
From left, Susanne Batzdorff, Evelyn Gurevitch and Edith Newman have been friends and Congregation Beth Ami members for decades. (Ron Batzdorff)
Posted inSeniors

‘Temple is people, and I need people’: Three women over 100 find joy in Santa Rosa synagogue — and each other

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz January 31, 2025February 4, 2025
David "Dudu" Habib marches in support of Israel at Stanford University on May 12, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inObituaries

David ‘Dudu’ Habib, 46, ‘a charmer’ who found his calling in caring for mourners

by Dan Pine January 30, 2025January 30, 2025
"Lamentations Over the Death of the First-Born of Egypt" by Charles Sprague Pearce (1877)
Posted inTorah

The Torah is worried about the effects of violence — even on the perpetrators

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg January 30, 2025January 30, 2025
The pastrami at Ethel's is made from Wagyu beef, cured in an original spice blend, and the pickles are house-made. (Alix Wall)
Posted inSmall Bites

2 Jewish eateries close: Ethel’s Delicatessen in Petaluma, Daily Driver bagels in S.F.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 29, 2025January 29, 2025
Mandy Aftel takes a whiff at her Aftel Archive of Curious Scents. (Foster Curry)
Posted inTalking With ...

Scent creator and curator Mandy Aftel on the essence of perfume — from frankincense to wet dog

by Patricia Corrigan January 29, 2025January 29, 2025
Carrie Staller holds liver boletes mushrooms while foraging. (Sita Davis)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

For her, foraging for mushrooms is a way of life 

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 28, 2025June 19, 2025

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