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the outline of a person hunched over in grief is filled with a photo of a man dancing with a Torah
Posted inOpinion

How to celebrate Simchat Torah when our hearts are weighed down by grief

headshot of Rabbi Elie Kaunfer by Rabbi Elie Kaunfer October 21, 2024October 21, 2024
a man smiles as he gazes up at the rafters of an unusually angled sukkah
Posted inBay Area

Three design teams erect unique sukkahs for competition at Urban Adamah

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi October 16, 2024October 18, 2024
Dinner in Cantor David Frommer’s sukkah in his San Francsico home, Oct. 10, 2017. (David A.M. Wilensky/J. Staff)
Posted inTorah

This year, we need more than a sukkah to protect us

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg October 16, 2024October 16, 2024
one of the boxes hangs from the roof of a sukkah
Posted inReligion

We bought the viral Amazon ‘tuchus’ boxes for Sukkot. What does that say about us?

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer October 16, 2024October 16, 2024
Cars and houses in Asheville, North Carolina, had trees fall on them during Hurricane Helene in September 2024. (Joanie Terrizzi)
Posted inFirst Person

Battered by Hurricane Helene, it doesn’t make sense to build a sukkah in Asheville this year

Joanie Terrizzi by Joanie Terrizzi October 16, 2024October 16, 2024
A sukkah banner distributed by Hakhel, the Goldberg-Polins’ synagogue in Jerusalem, features Hersh’s face with the word meaning light. Shlomit Sattler hung the banner in her Jerusalem sukkah. (Courtesy Sattler)
Posted inIsrael

Israelis are decorating their first sukkahs since Oct. 7 with symbols of the crisis since

by Deborah Danan October 15, 2024October 15, 2024
a rubber gloved hand holding green cannabis leaves
Posted inOpinion

Shabbat may seem like an obvious time for weed, but proceed with caution

David Zvi Kalman by David Zvi Kalman October 10, 2024October 10, 2024
Or Shalom congregants (from left) Corey Weinstein, Margo Freistadt, Jeffrey Brandstetter and Mary Ann Goldstein sound the shofar on Bernal Hill in San Francisco, Sept. 2023. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inTorah

Modern Judaism makes a mistake by overemphasizing the High Holidays

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein October 10, 2024October 10, 2024
A sign decorated with a rainbow reads: everyone in our sukkah is a holy guest"
Posted inHolidays

Where to celebrate Sukkot and Simchat Torah around the Bay Area

by J. Staff October 9, 2024October 10, 2024
A makeshift memorial to the victims of Oct. 7, featuring candles and the Hebrew word "Yizkor," or remembrance, in Ashdod, Israel, Nov. 20, 2023. (Maqaf-Ivri/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inReligion

One year after Oct. 7, a Yom Kippur ritual of communal mourning takes on fresh meaning

by Andrew Silow-Carroll October 8, 2024October 8, 2024

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