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Marchers call for the release of hostages in Gaza at the annual Israel parade in New York City, June 2, 2024. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy JCRCNY)
Posted inReligion

‘Bring them home’ means different things to Israelis and American Jews

by Andrew Silow-Carroll June 10, 2024
Holocaust survivor Henry Greenbaum of Bethesda, Maryland, shows his concentration camp tattoo to visitors at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Photo/Flickr/Department of Defense/Marvin Lynchard)
Posted inTorah

You are significant as both an individual Jew and as part of the Jewish people

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen June 6, 2024June 6, 2024
Crops growing at Givat Hen in Israel in 2013. (Photo/Wikimedia via PikiWiki CC BY 2.5)
Posted inTorah

This Torah portion’s vision of economic reorganization sounds a lot like socialism

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg May 23, 2024May 23, 2024
Eleven graduates of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College were ordained as rabbis in a ceremony in Abingdon, Pennsylvania, May 19, 2024. (Photo/JTA-Stephen Silver)
Posted inReligion

At Reconstructionist Rabbinical College ordination, divisions over Israel share stage with 11 new rabbis

by Stephen Silver May 20, 2024May 20, 2024
(Photo/Lukas Medvedevas via pexels.com)
Posted inTorah

This Torah portion teaches that we can’t go it alone — and we don’t need to

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein May 16, 2024May 16, 2024
A 1690 illustration of the constellation Taurus, this Hebrew month's ruling sign, by Johannes Hevelius.
Posted inAstrolojew

A month of healing — just what we need

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude May 8, 2024May 8, 2024
San Francisco's Marina District was hit hard by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. (Photo/Eve Fraser-Corp via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

Like us, ancient Israelites divided time into ‘before’ and ‘after’ trauma

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf May 2, 2024
A visitor places a stone at the Holocaust memorial at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inHolidays

Where to observe Yom HaShoah around the Bay Area in 2024

by J. Staff May 1, 2024May 3, 2024
These pages from the Birds' Head Haggadah (Southern Germany, ca. 1300) show part of the lyrics of Dayeinu. (Photo/Wikimedia user Sodabottle CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inTorah

Dayeinu: The concept of ‘enough’ is especially challenging this year

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon April 25, 2024April 25, 2024
Painting of two men and pyramids
Posted inJewish Life

Shabbat HaGadol reminds Jews to do what is right, even when others object

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen April 18, 2024

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