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Rabbi Alan Lew, right, tells story of how he and Norman Fischer (left) got accidentally drunk one time, as Fischer tries to make him shut up, Nov. 1995. (Photo/Phil Head)
Posted inReligion

How a book by San Francisco’s ‘Zen Rabbi’ became a High Holidays classic

by Andrew Silow-Carroll September 10, 2023September 11, 2023
"Moses Pleading with Israel" by Providence Lithograph Company, ca. 1907
Posted inTorah

Moses keeps trying to save us from ourselves

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon September 7, 2023September 7, 2023
Wilderness Torah's 2022 Rosh Hashanah seder at Green Valley Farms. (Photo/Julia Maryanska for Wilderness Torah)
Posted inUncategorized

Earth-based groups embrace the Sephardic Rosh Hashanah seder this year

by Dan Pine September 5, 2023September 6, 2023
A young girl blows a shofar outside
Posted inKids & Family

How to create sweet memories with your kids this Rosh Hashanah

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb September 5, 2023September 5, 2023
The scene inside Milk + Honey’s shipping container as Kabbalat Shabbat services at Burning Man began Friday night. (Photo/Forward-Danielle Kushner)
Posted inNews

With Burning Man caked in mud, this camp saved Shabbat

Louis Keene by Louis Keene September 5, 2023September 5, 2023
A structure on Mount Gerizim, a site associated with blessings in this week's Torah portion, seen in an 1881 illustration by Henry Fenn.
Posted inTorah

The lengthy list of curses in Torah reflects our primal brain

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg August 31, 2023August 31, 2023
A copy of "The Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous (Photo/Flickr-KayVee.INC CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Posted inLocal Voice

How the High Holidays reflect my sobriety journey

Jennifer Golbus by Jennifer Golbus August 30, 2023
LJ Bernstein blows a shofar at an Or Shalom Jewish Community picnic in Marx Meadows in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inReligion

UPDATED: Free and low-cost High Holiday services around the Bay Area

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb August 30, 2023September 19, 2023
A visualization of a black hole. (Illustration/Wikimedia user Yukterez)
Posted inOpinion

There’s a big God-shaped hole in Jewish education

Max Antman by Max Antman August 29, 2023
The wedding of Molly Kazin, who is Jewish, and Evan Marshall, who is not, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, on Nov. 20, 2021. Though Kazin grew up in a Conservative congregation, she assumed she could not get a rabbi in the movement to preside at her wedding, and found one through the organization where she works, 18Doors, which supports relationships between Jews and non-Jews. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Molly Kazin)
Posted inReligion

Conservative movement’s ban on rabbis officiating at interfaith weddings will stand

Louis Keene by Louis Keene August 25, 2023

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