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Rabbi David Ellenson, who served for 12 years as president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, has died at the age of 76. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy HUC)
Posted inObituaries

Rabbi David Ellenson, former president of Reform seminary and widely admired mentor, dies at 76

by Andrew Silow-Carroll December 7, 2023
"Joseph Reveals His Dream" by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inJewish Life

Choosing ‘senseless love’ over ‘senseless hatred’

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg December 7, 2023December 7, 2023
Rabbi Nosson Potash of Cole Valley Chabad fills a menorah made out of a Qassam rocket with candles as his 4-year-old son Shimon looks on. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inReligion

S.F. Chabad rabbi’s menorah turns a Qassam rocket into a beacon of peace

Natalie Weinstein in downtown San Francisco, Feb. 24, 2026. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Natalie Weinstein November 30, 2023December 4, 2023
"Jacob Wrestling with the Angel" Gustave Doré, 1855
Posted inTorah

We can survive struggles with our inner demons, just like Jacob

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein November 30, 2023November 30, 2023
Akiva and Chava Hart and their six children converted to Judaism on Nov. 5, 2023. Then the married couple got married again in a Jewish ceremony. (Photo/Levi Lehman)
Posted inTV & Film

‘House of Lev’: A former hip hop dancer and a makeup artist document their new Orthodox life online

Debra Nussbaum Cohen by Debra Nussbaum Cohen November 29, 2023November 29, 2023
A happy kid at a menorah making workshop in Contra Costa County. (Photo/Courtesy Chabad of Contra Costa)
Posted inJewish Life

Hanukkah events around the Bay Area for every age

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb November 29, 2023December 4, 2023
Wilderness Torah's signature annual event, Passover in the Desert, drew its biggest crowd yet to the Mojave Desert, April 5-10, 2023. (Photo/Julia Maryanska)
Posted inBay Area

Wilderness Torah presses pause on flagship ‘Passover in the Desert’ event

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 22, 2023
The giant menorah in Union Square in San Francisco on the first night of Hanukkah, Dec. 10, 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inJewish Life

Light in the darkness: Public menorah lightings around the Bay Area

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb November 22, 2023December 7, 2023
(From left) Zilpah, Rachel and Dinah help Bilhah during childbirth in the 2014 TV miniseries "The Red Tent."
Posted inTorah

To reckon with history, stay open to new narratives

Rabbi George Altshuler by Rabbi George Altshuler November 22, 2023November 21, 2023
A renaissance painting of two people, one of them Esau, speaking while crouched over a small flame
Posted inTorah

We can return to a place, but never to a moment

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg November 16, 2023November 17, 2023

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