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a seder plate with shank, egg, maror, haroset, parsley and and orange
Posted inPassover

Passover 2019: community seders around the Bay Area

by J. Staff April 2, 2019April 10, 2019
black and white drawing of nadav and avihu being thrown backwards by a flash of light
Posted inTorah

God made the world in seven days — but what happened on the eighth?

Rabbi Corey Helfand by Rabbi Corey Helfand March 28, 2019
Marnie Fienberg started 2 for Seder in memory of her mother-in-law, Joyce Fienberg (seen here), who was gunned down in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting last year.
Posted inPassover

‘2 for Seder’: To combat hate, invite two non-Jews to your seder

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 28, 2019March 28, 2019
a generic image of a girl reading from the Torah
Posted inMixed & Matched

We haven’t raised her with any religion, but now she wants a bat mitzvah

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler March 26, 2019
Melaveh Project doula Patti Goldstein (right) with her mother Phyllis Goldstein
Posted inSeniors

New approach to dying: Melaveh Project’s ‘end-of-life doulas’

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat March 25, 2019March 22, 2019
The altar in front of a mock-up of the Tabernacle in Timna, Israel (Photo/Wikimedia-Mboesch CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inTorah

Find your flame, and keep it lit

Rabbi Stacy Friedman by Rabbi Stacy Friedman March 21, 2019March 21, 2019
five men walk down the street in pink tutus, rainbow t-shirts, and unicorn horns
Posted inPurim

Purim is our queerest holiday. Why haven’t we internalized its lessons?

Ariel Sobel by Ariel Sobel March 18, 2019March 19, 2019
Illustration from Phillip Medhurst Collection depicting Joshua fighting Amalek
Posted inUncategorized

By remembering, we pledge to eradicate hate from the world

Rabbi Ryan Bauer by Rabbi Ryan Bauer March 14, 2019March 14, 2019
These kids at a 2016 Chabad of North Peninsula Purim party turned Purim glam into glam rock. Also: Harry Potter?
Posted inPurim

From Morocco to outer space, Purim events around the Bay Area

by J. Staff March 14, 2019March 15, 2019
Ketubahs by Anna Abramzon for couples that lost theirs in recent Northern California wildfires
Posted inCulture

North Bay artist makes new ketubahs for survivors of natural disasters

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 13, 2019April 3, 2019

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