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Sara Glass is the author of "Kissing Girls on Shabbat."
Posted inBooks

‘Kissing Girls on Shabbat’: Gay ex-Hasidic therapist coming to OFJCC

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 25, 2025April 28, 2025
Life is like a river — constantly flowing. (Natalie Weinstein/ J. Staff)
Posted inTorah

Jewish faith isn’t the absence of doubt. It’s the presence of commitment.

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg April 24, 2025April 24, 2025
(Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inReligion

An Israeli think tank used AI to analyze 4,400 American synagogue sermons

Ben Sales by Ben Sales April 23, 2025April 23, 2025
Pope Francis listens to Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni while sitting during his visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome, Italy, Jan. 17, 2016. (Giuseppe Ciccia/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

How Pope Francis advanced Catholic relationship with Jews

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 22, 2025April 22, 2025
God took the Jewish people out of Egypt to change their inner lives, which is far harder than crossing a sea.


Concept art of Moses splitting the Red Sea in "The Prince of Egypt."
Posted inTorah

The Exodus transformed us into a people who could make our own choices

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf April 17, 2025April 17, 2025
From left, Marc Mazer, Susan Talon-Mazer, Rabbi Dan Goldblatt and Zoë Francesca Goldblatt of the AriYael Jewish Healing Center. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inReligion

A Bay Area Jewish healing center expands as it embraces mourning, celebration

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz April 15, 2025April 16, 2025
Three men, one very young and two very old, light candles in front of a packed auditorium
Posted inHolidays

Bay Area events for Yom HaShoah and Israel Memorial Day

by J. Staff April 14, 2025April 21, 2025
In this year's Asufa Haggadah, an annual production with art by dozens of Israeli artists, multiple illustrations show seder tables with empty yellow chairs, symbols of the hostages in Gaza. (Philissa Cramer/JTA)
Posted inIsrael

For a second year, Jews mark Festival of Freedom as hostages remain in Gaza

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer April 11, 2025April 11, 2025
A 19th-century drawing of the Tabernacle and the camp (19th Century drawing)
Posted inTorah

Jews have always sought new ways to express gratitude

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon April 10, 2025April 10, 2025
The congregation exits a Black church in Pittsburgh in 1941. (Jack Delano/Farm Security Administration)
Posted inOpinion

Why I’m holding my Seder in a historic Black church

Tamar Manasseh by Tamar Manasseh April 8, 2025April 8, 2025

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