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Posted inJewish Life

With faith, you can climb mountains and face down giants

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg June 27, 2024June 27, 2024
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Death announcements for the week of June 28, 2024

by J. Staff June 27, 2024June 28, 2024
Front row: Gayle Stanford; Sydney Randazzo; Lauren Meyers. Back row: Susan Gertz; Sharon Malakoff; Sherry Preiss; Linda Goldman.
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Lifecycles announcements for the week of June 28, 2024

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Barbara Cymrot, pictured in the Castro District of San Francisco, was one of the first parents to join Sha'ar Zahav, San Francisco's LGBTQ synagogue. (Aaron-Levy Wolins/J. Staff)
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LGBTQ synagogue Sha’ar Zahav, once reluctant to welcome children, embraces its third generation

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss June 26, 2024July 1, 2024
Gur Rivlin, the Hummus Prince himself, bakes pita in his parents' kitchen. (Courtesy)
Posted inSmall Bites

Hummus Prince open for orders in Palo Alto; Smitten ice cream ‘chooses love’

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 26, 2024July 31, 2024
The author and her husband (center) with the extended Akita family in Osaka. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inSeniors

A meeting of cultures in Japan: Green tea, chicken soup and mild faux pas

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent June 25, 2024June 25, 2024
Rabbi Burt Jacobson
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Rabbi Burt Jacobson, a political activist and founder of Kehilla, dies at 87

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 24, 2024June 25, 2024
Tal Mor (left), an Israeli-American, and Sam Mogannam, a Palestinian-American, who organize weekly gatherings for people to process their feelings about the Israel-Gaza war, pose together at the 18 Reasons culinary school in San Francisco on June 14, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Owners of Loquat and Bi-Rite find recipe for talking freely about Israel and Gaza

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 24, 2024July 31, 2024
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Posted inHealth

Having a rare medical problem changed me as a doctor

by Dr. Jerry Saliman June 21, 2024June 21, 2024
Andrew Rehfeld delivers his inaugural address as president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 27, 2019. (Courtesy of HUC)
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Hebrew Union College to admit and ordain rabbinical students in interfaith relationships, ending longstanding ban

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer June 20, 2024June 20, 2024

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