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Two women kneel pensively on a path near headstones and open grass
Posted inUncategorized

Memory Garden will be a place of healing for grieving parents

Tad Taube by Tad Taube April 23, 2019
A 19th-century Ukrainian art print of a family seder
Posted inPassover

On Passover, remembering the past means imagining the future

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg April 18, 2019
The co-creators of the Possibly-Largest-Seder-Plate in-the-World at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, 2014. (Photo/Courtesy Judy Massarano)
Posted inPassover

Is this Berkeley seder ‘plate’ the world’s largest?

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 17, 2019April 16, 2019
a generic image of a girl reading from the Torah
Posted inLifecycles

Readers offer alternatives for 11-year-old who wants bat mitzvah, but would be starting from scratch

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler April 16, 2019
Do you yearn for an earthly Jerusalem — or its heavenly counterpart? (Ancient earthly Jerusalem as painted by James Tissot, ca. 1890)
Posted inPassover

After Israeli election, what do I mean by ‘next year in Jerusalem’?

Rabbi Katie Mizrahi headshot by Rabbi Katie Mizrahi April 16, 2019April 17, 2019
Al Rosen's seder this year will include the whacking of his homemade Pharaoh piñata. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inPassover

Why this S.F. man’s seder features a Pharaoh piñata

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 16, 2019April 16, 2019
Screenshot from "Prince of Egypt," as Moses begins to feel pangs of empathy for Hebrew slaves
Posted inPassover

Passover is a time to practice empathy for ‘the stranger’ among us

Rabbi Lavey Derby by Rabbi Lavey Derby April 15, 2019April 15, 2019
Rabbi Ted in the studio at KPCA in Petaluma
Posted inCulture

Live from Petaluma, Rabbi Ted is on the air

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 15, 2019April 17, 2019
an off iPhone sitting on a white surface
Posted inLocal Voice

The benefits of unplugging on Shabbat last all week

Tiffany Shlain by Tiffany Shlain April 12, 2019
Screenshot from "Period. End of Sentence.," a documentary about women in rural India
Posted inJewish Life

Women must be free from stigma. Period.

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon April 11, 2019

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