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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
Phish frontman Trey Anastasio playing solo at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. (Photo/Andrea Z. Nusinov)
Posted inHigh Holidays

Jewish Phish fans swim in their own holy waters

Oren Kroll-Zeldin by Oren Kroll-Zeldin August 24, 2023August 24, 2023
Israeli fans at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Sept. 5, 1972. (Photo/JTA-Klaus Rose-picture alliance via Getty Images)
Posted inTorah

Can vengeance ever be justifiable? This week’s Torah portion raises tricky questions.

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein August 24, 2023August 24, 2023
One of many self-driving Cruise cars approved for use on the streets of San Francisco. (Photo/Courtesy Cruise)
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Are self-driving cars kosher? San Francisco rabbis weigh in as robotaxis flood the city’s streets

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 23, 2023October 29, 2023
Detail from a 1961 Israeli postal stamp depicting Virgo, the sign of the month of Elul. (Photo/Flickr-Karen Horton CC BY-NC 2.0)
Posted inColumns

Horoscopes for Elul: What will you run toward in the new year?

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude August 18, 2023August 18, 2023
"Moses Pleading with Israel" by Providence Lithograph Company, ca. 1907
Posted inTorah

Is the entire Torah an effort to explain this single line?

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf August 17, 2023

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