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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
Ethiopian Jews take part in the Sigd holiday on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade overlooking Jerusalem, Nov. 23, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Ethiopian Israelis celebrate Sigd holiday under the shadow of war

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer November 13, 2023
A stainless steel, sterling silver and gold chanukkiah designed by San Francisco artist Abrasha is part of the Smithsonian's collection. (Photo/File)
Posted inAstrolojew

Horoscopes for Hanukkah: Time to banish the darkness

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude November 13, 2023November 14, 2023
"Rebecca and Eliezer" by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, ca. 1660 — a scene from this week's Torah portion, Chayei Sarah.
Posted inTorah

What kind of wife does Abraham have in mind for his son?

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen November 9, 2023
Members of the advocacy group IfNotNow sing during a protest outside the Los Angeles home of Vice President Kamala Harris calling "on those in power to oppose any policies that privilege one group of people over another, in Israel/Palestine and in the U.S," Oct. 19, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Irfan Khan-Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

Some Jewish musicians are asking Jewish critics of Israel to stop singing their songs at protests

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer November 8, 2023November 10, 2023
"The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah," John Martin, 1852
Posted inTorah

Abraham stands up against great power for all the right reasons

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan November 2, 2023November 2, 2023

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