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These 20-sided dreidels created by David Zvi Kalman will become more expensive to import under the Trump administration's tariffs. (Courtesy Kalman)
Posted inFirst Person

I run a small Judaica business. Trump’s tariffs are going to squelch Jewish innovation.

David Zvi Kalman by David Zvi Kalman April 9, 2025April 9, 2025
The congregation exits a Black church in Pittsburgh in 1941. (Jack Delano/Farm Security Administration)
Posted inOpinion

Why I’m holding my Seder in a historic Black church

Tamar Manasseh by Tamar Manasseh April 8, 2025April 8, 2025
Rachele Kanigel carries the Torah at her bat mitzvah. (Kim Komenich)
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Wrestling with the G-word: Why a religious skeptic had an adult bat mitzvah

Rachele Kanigel by Rachele Kanigel March 24, 2025April 4, 2025
Bernie and Sylvia Morris, the author's parents, seen here wearing green around 2005, emigrated from Ireland to Canada in 1957. (Courtesy Yvonne Boxerman)
Posted inLocal Voice

Don’t pinch me: This Dublin-born Jew won’t wear green on St. Patrick’s Day

An older woman smiles slightly in a blue sweater by Yvonne Boxerman March 14, 2025March 14, 2025
Janet Silver Ghent dances with her father, Robin Martin Silver, at her first wedding in 1965. (Courtesy)
Posted inAct Two

My return to Judaism was a matter of joy and pride, not crises

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent February 12, 2025February 12, 2025
Left: Hen Mazzig in Israel with his mother, Cami, and his grandmother Hela, a Jewish refugee from Iraq who was forced to leave her home in Baghdad in 1951. (Reli Abrahami). Right: An Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1910 (Jewish Chronicle/Heritage Images/Getty Images).
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My Jewish family was forced out of our homeland. We must not let Gazans suffer the same fate.

headshot of a younger man in glasses by Hen Mazzig February 6, 2025February 6, 2025
The author's kids, Mira (left) and Sam, sit dressed for Halloween on the doorstep of the family's former house in Altadena. (Courtesy of Rebecca Golbert)
Posted inFirst Person

Before the fires, Altadena was our magical place

Rebecca Golbert by Rebecca Golbert February 3, 2025February 3, 2025
Luba Grungras, who is believed to be the last living survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp in the Bay Area, at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living on Jan. 16, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inFirst Person

‘I did not understand I was still alive’: At 100, Auschwitz survivor recalls Holocaust horrors

by Luba Grungras January 23, 2025January 24, 2025
Emma Goss and Héber Cruz Berber have a love story of their own. After a long engagement, they will marry in February.
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‘Such a Match!’ podcast — a passion project hosted by a hopeless romantic

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 18, 2025January 22, 2025
A Thanksgiving greeting card from 1908
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Reality gobbled up our plan to host Algerian tourists for a holiday meal

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz December 30, 2024December 30, 2024

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