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Trump holding one of his new bibles. (Screenshot/EWTN)
Posted inLocal Voice

I translated the complete Hebrew Bible. Trump’s ‘USA Bible’ betrays its greatest asset

by Robert Alter March 29, 2024March 29, 2024
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inTorah

If God had created a perfect world, humans would be nothing more than robots

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein March 28, 2024March 28, 2024
Person wearing sackcloth
Posted inReligion

Jews in Berkeley don sackcloth to grieve Palestinian, Israeli lives lost since Oct. 7

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 22, 2024March 22, 2024
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir holds a grogger during a Megillah reading at his home in Jerusalem on Purim 1991. (Photo/Israel Government Press Office)
Posted inColumns

Silence isn’t golden: The power of Purim groggers

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg March 21, 2024
An aerial view of American Jewish University's former campus in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy AJU)
Posted inCalifornia

2 investigations underway following complaints of sexism at Ziegler rabbinical seminary

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev March 20, 2024March 20, 2024
Jewish thought leaders are facing down the uncomfortable implications of Chapter Nine of the Book of Esther at a time when the Jewish people are responding to the deadliest attack on them since the Holocaust.(Photo/JTA-Getty)
Posted inReligion

How Jews are addressing the megillah’s bloodiest chapter during this wartime Purim

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg March 15, 2024
A 19th-century painting of Purim partying in Tzfat, Israel (Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inTorah

Find an excuse to feel some collective Jewish joy

Rabbi George Altshuler by Rabbi George Altshuler March 14, 2024March 14, 2024
a black and white image of a solar eclipse
Posted inColumns

Double Adar continues with Double Eclipse season

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude March 13, 2024
hamantaschen
Posted inPurim

UPDATED: Purim fun around the Bay Area for all ages

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 12, 2024March 19, 2024
Painting of the Golden Calf
Posted inTorah

Why the Israelites really built the Golden Calf

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen February 29, 2024February 28, 2024

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