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Post-tashlich Shabbat service at the Peninsula JCC's Hamlin Garden, led by (from left) Cantor Doron Shapira, Rabbi Laurie Matzkin, musician Michael Battat and Rabbi Lisa Kingston.
Posted inFirst Person

Kicking off 5783 with spirituality and community on the Peninsula

Rabbi Laurie Matzkin by Rabbi Laurie Matzkin October 26, 2022October 27, 2022
Congregants of Nashuva cast bread into the waters of Santa Monica Bay during the Rosh Hashanah tashlich ritual in 2021. (Photo/Forward-Rob Eshman)
Posted inFirst Person

Just in time for Rosh Hashanah, a new reason to feel guilty: your tashlich litter

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward September 23, 2022September 28, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II meets Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks as she attends a reception at St James's Palace in London to mark the 350th anniversary of the re-establishment of the Jewish community in Britain, Nov. 28, 2006. (Photo/JTA-Andrew Parsons-WPA ROTA-PA)
Posted inOpinion

Queen Elizabeth mattered. Civil religion explains why.

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA September 20, 2022September 21, 2022
The exterior of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in the days after a white supremacist murdered 11 people during Shabbat services in October 2018.
(Still from "Repairing the World")
Posted inFirst Person

A journalist’s prescient take on rise of antisemitism in U.S.

by Mitch Paradise September 19, 2022
Four Stabucks cups, each with a name handwritten on it: Rivka, Ezra, Avi, and Talia
Posted inU.S.

A new study explains why Starbucks can’t spell your Jewish name

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA September 12, 2022September 12, 2022
Call him "Mr. Fun" — Dan Pine blissing out with his grandsons Chris (on lap) and Lucas.
Posted inOpinion

All those adages about being a grandparent? They’re true.

by Dan Pine September 9, 2022September 9, 2022
Palo Alto-born Joc Pederson batting for the San Francisco Giants in 2022. (Photo/JTA-Jim McIsaac-Getty Images)
Posted inSports

The joys of catching a baseball at the Giants’ Jewish heritage night — thrown by a Jewish player

by Jordan Greene and Forward September 6, 2022September 7, 2022
Elias Botto (left) and Len Traubman do a reading during the wedding of J. contributing editor Alix Wall in 2006. (Photo/Joyce Goldschmid)
Posted inLocal Voice

Remembering Elias Botto, the Bay Area Palestinian who became my friend

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 26, 2022August 29, 2022
(Photo/Forward-Rob Eshman)
Posted inOpinion

Can a Jew cook Palestinian food without getting all political?

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward August 26, 2022
Cantor Malachi Kanfer. (Photo/Forward-Ellen Dubin Photography)
Posted inFirst Person

Sanctifying the stutter: How I embraced my speech disorder as a cantor

by Malachi Kanfer and Forward August 24, 2022August 24, 2022

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