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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
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inTorah

A navigation system for life’s journey

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg March 7, 2019
The unicorn and the wolf of the reconstructed synagogue in Gwozdziec, Poland
Posted inTorah

The unicorn in the synagogue

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan February 28, 2019March 1, 2019
Ruth, the heroine of the biblical book that bears her name, was the first convert to Judaism. Painting by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inMixed & Matched

Why won’t an Orthodox rabbi convert me?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler February 25, 2019
A group of women lead a sisterhood Shabbat dinner at a synagogue in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1943. (Photo/Flickr-Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest)
Posted inTorah

Why we’ll still be celebrating Shabbat 100 years from now

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg February 21, 2019
"The Holy of Holies" from the 1890 Holman Bible
Posted inColumns

What we can learn from the Temple’s ‘eternal incense’

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon February 14, 2019
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Posted inUncategorized

In an epidemic of loneliness, celebrate the role of the Jewish burial society

Rabbi Serena Eisenberg by Rabbi Serena Eisenberg February 13, 2019February 14, 2019
Camp Newman campers work on restoring the ark, which was damaged in the 2017 North Bay wildfires.
Posted inTorah

As in Torah, Camp Newman will (re)build with a community’s offerings

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

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