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Black, Jewish, transgender: The assault on LGBTQ+ people targets everything that I am

Nate Looney by Nate Looney June 29, 2023
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Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

Misadventure of a miscreant Broadway baby

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz June 21, 2023June 21, 2023
The author's Zumba instructor, Asya Deliahmedova, dancing at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. (Photo/Instagram @asinka82)
Posted inAct Two

True confessions of a lifelong klutz now hooked on Zumba

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent June 14, 2023June 14, 2023
The scene outside La Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, bedecked with Tunisian flags for the annual Lag B'Omer pilgrimage. (Photo/Adam Eilath)
Posted inOpinion

Tragedy can’t overshadow the joys of our Tunisian Jewish pilgrimage

Adam Eilath by Adam Eilath May 24, 2023May 24, 2023
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As a rabbi in a small town, I understand the Jewish class divide — and how to close it

Rabbi Rachel Isaacs by Rabbi Rachel Isaacs May 19, 2023
Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park (Photo/Flickr-Patrick G CC)
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Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, named for an antisemite, may get a new name. What should it be?

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 19, 2023May 19, 2023
Britain's King Charles III (left) wearing the state crown and carrying the Sovereign's Orb and Sceptre meets faith leaders, including British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (second from right), as he leaves Westminster Abbey after the Coronation Ceremonies on May 6, 2023 in London. (Photo/JTA-Ben Stansall-WPA Pool-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

As an American rabbi in King Charles’ court, I’m learning to love the king (in addition to the King)

Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet (Photo/Talya Baker) by Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet and JTA May 10, 2023
Folk dancing in San Francisco on Israel's 25th Independence Day in 1973 (Photo/Saul Miller)
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Israel at 25, 50 and now 75: A personal reflection

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn April 21, 2023
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Don’t discard that poultry carcass! Send it my way — giblets, too

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent April 19, 2023
Jews move along a crowded street in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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After 80 years, Warsaw Ghetto heroism burns even brighter

Tad Taube by Tad Taube April 18, 2023April 17, 2023

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