With Passover just around the corner, beginning on March 27, Jews around the world are preparing to participate in a ritual retelling both of our suffering as an oppressed people and of our miraculous redemption from the suffering of Mitzrayim, Hebrew for ancient Egypt. Each year, we relate to this past experience through the prism…
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Torah
Sinai should've been all ecstasy. Then the Golden Calf happened.
The Torah column is supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek in memory of Kenneth Gordon. Ki Tisa Exodus 30:11−34:35 This week’s Torah…
Passover
New haggadahs: serene and poetic, earthy and playful
It’s been a rough couple of years to publish new haggadahs. Last year, around the time people might have ordered new ones, it became clear that the…
Israel
Israeli Orthodox politicians are again attacking Reform Jews
Israel’s two largest Orthodox political parties both released ads this week attacking Reform Jews. One video featured pictures of dogs in kippahs with a…
Bay Area
Sinai makes livestreaming standard at graveside services
Sinai Memorial Chapel, the only Jewish funeral home between Los Angeles and Seattle, will start livestreaming most of its graveside funeral services by…
Profile
Her journalistic path to Judaism started on a date with Bari Weiss
The New York Times staff cafeteria doesn’t offer much in the way of ambiance for a first date. And Nellie Bowles wasn’t even clear her 2018 meetup over…
World
Masks of all kinds: Scenes from a pandemic Purim across the world
It might have felt hard for many to summon a festive mood this Purim, which was for some the first holiday to be unsettled by the pandemic and for others…
Torah
Your Shabbat table is magic
The Torah column is supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek in memory of Kenneth Gordon. Tetzaveh Exodus 27:20–30:10 Daughter: Did you know…
Bay Area
Palo Alto shul’s new building blends Biblical old and Silicon Valley new
Congregation Kol Emeth’s new $30 million campus in Palo Alto is partially modeled on the Mishkan, the portable Tabernacle that God instructed the ancient…