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The late Pola Silver was always in the kitchen — often whipping up her famous borscht. (Photo of Pola/Courtesy; Photo of borscht/Faith Kramer)
Posted inRecipe

This Yom HaShoah, I’m remembering a Holocaust survivor through her beloved borscht recipe

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer April 30, 2024May 23, 2024
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Palo Alto gets two very different new kosher restaurants

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 26, 2024April 28, 2024
These pages from the Birds' Head Haggadah (Southern Germany, ca. 1300) show part of the lyrics of Dayeinu. (Photo/Wikimedia user Sodabottle CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inTorah

Dayeinu: The concept of ‘enough’ is especially challenging this year

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon April 25, 2024April 25, 2024
Paul Canin, a retired architect and World War II veteran, at his floating home in the Berkeley Marina, May 11, 2023. This article was produced in partnership with Berkeleyside, which provided the photos. (Photo/Ximena Natera-Berkeleyside-CatchLight)
Posted inObituaries

With a brush made of his own hair, he painted to survive in a Nazi POW camp

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 24, 2024May 14, 2024
Trina Robbins (center) with Jan Duursema (left) and Carol Kalish on the "Women in Comics" panel at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con. (Photo/Alan Light CC BY 2.0)
Posted inObituaries

Trina Robbins, 85, the first woman to draw a full issue of ‘Wonder Woman’

by JTA and J. Staff April 24, 2024April 24, 2024
Micah Siva's matzah borekas (Photo/Micah Siva)
Posted inRecipe

Matzah replaces puff pastry in these butternut squash borekas for Passover

Micah Siva by Micah Siva April 19, 2024May 23, 2024
(Photo/Flickr-María Helena Carey CC BY-ND 2.0)
Posted inJewish Life

Lifecycles announcements for the week of April 19, 2024

by J. Staff April 19, 2024April 20, 2024
Regina Rummel speaking at Redwood High School. (Photo/Courtesy Chabad of Central Marin)
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Honors, happenings, comings and goings — April 2024

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 19, 2024April 19, 2024
a lit memorial candle with a Sinai Memorial Chapel logo on it
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Death announcements for the week of April 19, 2024

by J. Staff April 19, 2024April 20, 2024
Painting of two men and pyramids
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Shabbat HaGadol reminds Jews to do what is right, even when others object

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen April 18, 2024

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