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2020 Market Hall seder plate with horseradish, shank bone and eggs. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inJewish Life

UPDATED: Community Passover seders around the Bay Area

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 13, 2023March 30, 2023
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inTorah

Step aside, Golden Calf. This week’s Torah portion is a lesson in cooperation.

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen March 10, 2023March 10, 2023
Rabbi Amanda Russell reads from Congregation Beth Sholom's newly commissioned Megillah. (Photo/Courtesy Beth Sholom)
Posted inUncategorized

Why my synagogue commissioned a groundbreaking new Megillah

Rabbi Amanda Russell by Rabbi Amanda Russell March 6, 2023March 6, 2023
Purim groggers, masks and hamantaschen (Photo/JTA-Getty)
Posted inUncategorized

Check out these Purim events for 2023

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 2, 2023March 6, 2023
smiling people at a party
Posted inAstrolojew

Horoscopes for Adar: The consoling power of holy laughter

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude February 21, 2023
Two Jewish girls protesting against child slavery with signs in English and Yiddish, 1909. (Photo/Library of Congress-George Grantham Bain collection)
Posted inColumns

Looking at slavery in the Torah through a modern lens

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg February 17, 2023
The Codex Sassoon, estimated to be about 1,000 years old, is going to auction at Sotheby's. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Sotheby's)
Posted inU.S.

The oldest copy of the Hebrew Bible is headed to auction this spring

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA February 16, 2023
Rabbi Gordon Freeman wearing the tallit his daughters gave him, which has the names of all his grandchildren on it. He is standing by a painting from The Sh'ma Project, which he and two friends put together.
Posted inJewish Life

Why this local rabbi is embracing his 80s with a second bar mitzvah

by Liz Harris February 15, 2023
Moses and Jethro in the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments"
Posted inTorah

Here’s to the non-Jews in the Torah! (There are more than you might think)

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein February 10, 2023February 10, 2023
(Illustration/JTA-Grace Yagel; Images/Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1953, Creative Commons)
Posted inOpinion

Can a Jewish fan watch the Super Bowl with a clean conscience? The rabbis had thoughts.

Rabba Yaffa Epstein by Rabba Yaffa Epstein and JTA February 10, 2023February 10, 2023

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