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Lag Ba'omer is commonly celebrated with a big bonfire. (Photo/Flickr-Yoninah CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inColumns

Celebrating Lag Ba’Omer with the holy fools of Chelm

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan May 3, 2018May 3, 2018
When the meal was over, Rabbi Ferris and others brought out guitars for a little post-Passover jam sesh. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inColumns

When Moshiach comes, men will help clear the table

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 2, 2018June 26, 2018
Screenshot of Rabbi Ahron Hecht in Richmond Torah Center's video fundraising pitch for their new mikvah
Posted inJewish Life

Chabad men of S.F. proclaim: ‘We need a mikvah!’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 2, 2018May 29, 2018
Italy doesn't mess around when it comes to Easter. (Photo/Wikimedia-Figiu CC BY 3.0)
Posted inColumns

For this Jew, Passover (read: Easter) in Italy was not bellissimo

Larry RosenEric Goldbrener by Larry Rosen and Eric Goldbrener May 1, 2018May 1, 2018
From the "Religion and Resistance" exhibit at Graduate Theological Union
Posted inCulture

How does faith inform resistance? GTU exhibit explores the question

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 1, 2018April 30, 2018
This week's Torah portion introduces the commandment to leave fallen harvest in the field to be "gleaned" by the poor, as illustrated here in "The Gleaners" by Gustave Doré from the 1865 La Sainte Bible.
Posted inColumns

What makes us different? And what makes us holy?

Rabbi Joel Landau by Rabbi Joel Landau April 26, 2018
The ancient Beit Alfa synagogue in Israel famously features this zodiac mosaic floor.
Posted inAstrolojew

What is Jewish astrology?

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude April 24, 2018
"Memorial Tablet and Omer Calendar" by Baruch Zvi Ring, ca. 1900
Posted inColumns

What childbirth teaches us about counting the Omer

Rabbi Adina Allen by Rabbi Adina Allen April 20, 2018April 20, 2018
A group of Reform Jews reading Torah during a mixed prayer at the public square in front of the Western Wall, Nov. 16, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Noam Rivkin Fenton-Flash90)
Posted inIsrael at 70

Building a Reform movement in Israel

Yonatan Melamed by Yonatan Melamed April 16, 2018April 16, 2018
Chai Levy dances with Roger Studley after his marriage proposal on Masada during a 2006 congregational trip.
Posted inIsrael at 70

Rules of (Jewish) engagement — how I came to live my Judaism 24/7

Rabbi Chai Levy by Rabbi Chai Levy April 13, 2018

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