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A Jewish family decorates their windows
Posted inHanukkah

When my children decorate for Hanukkah, I don’t just see pride. I see pluralism in action.

Rabbi Joshua Ladon by Rabbi Joshua Ladon December 18, 2025December 18, 2025
Close-up of hands holding speech bubbles, symbolizing communication and dialogue against a blue sky.
Posted inOpinion

AI’s systems of probability are far removed from the Jewish culture of debate

Danielle Sobkin (Courtesy) by Danielle Sobkin December 18, 2025December 19, 2025
Melissa Saxe Blaustein and David Saxe asked their wedding guests to donate to four Bay Area art institutions instead of giving traditional gifts. (Courtesy Radostina Boseva)
Posted inFirst Person

How we turned our wedding into a celebration of tzedakah

Melissa Blaustein (Courtesy)David Saxe (Courtesy) by Melissa Saxe Blaustein and David Saxe December 17, 2025December 17, 2025
The cover of our Nov. 28 print issue was the cause of consternation for at least one reader.
Posted inLetters

Our ‘unholey’ cover art. ‘I’m not white — I’m other.’ Etc.

by J. Readers December 16, 2025December 16, 2025
An exhibition launching in December 2025 at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism in New York City celebrates congregants' family immigration stories. (Courtesy Rachael Cerrotti)
Posted inOpinion

This Hanukkah, my synagogue is illuminating our walls with relics of our Jewish immigrant stories

by Ruth Messinger December 11, 2025December 11, 2025
Dublin houses
Posted inLocal Voice

Why California Jews must speak out on housing policy

Max Mautner by Max Mautner December 8, 2025December 9, 2025
Deborah Danan
Posted inOpinion

I planned the first Guinness-record Shabbat dinner. I’m not too bitter over being usurped.

by Deborah Danan December 2, 2025December 2, 2025
People gather behind a California Faculty Association banner
Posted inLetters

Coach Beam was like the best rabbis. Antisemitism in CSU faculty union.

by J. Readers November 28, 2025November 28, 2025
Demonstrators hold a FSJP banner during a protest at UC Berkeley in August 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inLocal Voice

UC Berkeley faculty’s academic boycott of Israel normalizes Jewish exclusion

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin by Tammi Rossman-Benjamin November 24, 2025November 25, 2025
J. reporter Lea Loeb (right) with her husband George and their two kids. (Courtesy)
Posted inFirst Person

For my mixed Jewish-Salvadoran family, Thanksgiving is complicated

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb November 21, 2025November 21, 2025

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