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"Queen Vashti Deposed" by Ernest Normand (Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inJewish Life

Hail Queen Vashti! Celebrating Purim in the age of #MeToo

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten February 26, 2018February 26, 2018
These kids at a 2016 Chabad of North Peninsula Purim party turned Purim glam into glam rock. Also: Harry Potter?
Posted inColumns

The holiness of Purim lies in glitz, glam and color

Rabbi Adina Allen by Rabbi Adina Allen February 23, 2018February 23, 2018
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inColumns

Leave bitterness at the door when you enter the sanctuary

Rabbi Susan Leider by Rabbi Susan Leider February 16, 2018February 15, 2018
Rabbi John Rosove
Posted inJewish Life

‘Liberal Rabbi’ tells Jewish millennials why Judaism should matter to them

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn February 15, 2018
"The Covenant Confirmed," by John Steeple Davis
Posted inColumns

The danger of snap judgments

Rabbi Corey Helfand by Rabbi Corey Helfand February 9, 2018February 13, 2018
A 1907 postcard depicts the Israelites gathered at the foot of Mount Sinai.
Posted inColumns

My week in silent meditation made it clear: Kindness is king

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg February 2, 2018
Homemade Fig Rum, among a number of other booze forms, flowed freely at Urban Adamah's 2018 Tu B'Shevat seder. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inColumns

An adults-only Tu B’Shevat seder — sobering, but hardly sober

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky January 31, 2018February 6, 2018
Shlomo Carlebach at his 1960s base of operations, the House of Love and Prayer in San Francisco
Posted inJewish Life

The synagogues that are saying #MeToo to banning Shlomo Carlebach

Ben Sales by Ben Sales January 30, 2018
Rabbi Deborah Waxman, president of the newly renamed Reconstructing Judaism
Posted inNews

Reconstructionist umbrella reconstructs branding as Reconstructing Judaism

by Dan Pine January 30, 2018March 19, 2018
Statue of John Wesley, on whose teachings Methodist Christianity was founded, in Wesley Square at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky (Photo/Wikimedia-TheBigGiant)
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How can we raise our boys as Jews with Christian heritage?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler January 29, 2018February 8, 2018

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