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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
(Photo/Wikimedia CC0)
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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
Tomer Persico is a visiting professor at UC Berkeley and a Shalom Hartman Institute scholar-in-residence.
Posted inReligion

For Israeli scholar of New Age Judaism, there’s no place like Berkeley

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 1, 2019February 4, 2019
Karen Galatz and great-nephew Ryan visit New York City
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

At the storied Eldridge Street Synagogue, my nephew is a minyan-making hero

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz January 29, 2019February 1, 2019
Moses and Jethro in the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments"
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When getting it all done gets to be too much

Rabbi Stacy Friedman by Rabbi Stacy Friedman January 24, 2019

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