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The pile of haggadahs in intrepid haggadah correspondent David A.M. Wilensky's home grows ever taller. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inPassover

New haggadahs for 2025 include sage wisdom, JewBelong’s take — and one ‘in the original Klingon’

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky April 1, 2025April 4, 2025
A volvelle (an instrument for calculating when new months begin) from Offenbach, Germany, 1722. (Library of Congress)
Posted inTorah

As free people, Israelites reclaimed their most precious commodity: Time

Rabbi Daniel Stein by Rabbi Daniel Stein March 27, 2025March 27, 2025
Seder table at JCRC's annual Freedom Seder, 2023. (Anastasiia Sapon/JCRC)
Posted inPassover

UPDATED: Community seders abound across Northern California

by J. Staff March 21, 2025April 8, 2025
An AI illustration of Sigmund Freud, seated in an armchair, talking to a humanoid robot who is laying on a couch.
Posted inThe Perils & Promise of AI

As AI charges ahead, Jewish thinkers are falling behind

by Dan Friedman March 21, 2025June 18, 2025
Marchers cross the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march. (Rabbi Amy Eilberg)
Posted inTorah

‘Despair is not a strategy’: Marching in Selma, 60 years later

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg March 20, 2025March 20, 2025
About a dozen people, some of whom are men in black hats and suits, stand in a grassy field
Posted inBay Area

New Jewish cemetery opens in Livermore after a decade of hurdles

by Dan Pine March 13, 2025March 13, 2025
a middle-aged woman wearing a yarmulke sits with a very elderly man who is laying in a hospital bed
Posted inIdeas

Choosing how to die: Film and talk at Sherith Israel will probe assisted death

by Patricia Corrigan March 13, 2025March 13, 2025
"The Golden Calf," c. 1896–1902 by James Tissot
Posted inTorah

Let’s be real: It’s hard for people to believe in an invisible God

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein March 13, 2025March 13, 2025
Jamie Marx, "The Spiel Guy" (left) has written Purimspiels used by hundreds of synagogues — including Congregation Shir Hadash in Los Gatos, seen here enjoying his "Encanto"-themed spiel.
Posted inReligion

450 synagogues have turned to ‘The Spiel Guy’ for their Purimspiel scripts

by Emma Goss March 11, 2025March 11, 2025
An antique illustration of Esther's banquet from the Purim story from a book published in London in 1876. (Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Christian conservatives have appropriated Queen Esther as a symbol. Let’s take her back.

Amichai Lau-LavieJulie Dorf by Amichai Lau-Lavie and Julie Dorf March 10, 2025March 10, 2025

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