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A crowd gathers outside the Supreme Court on May 2, 2022. (Photo/RNS-AP-Alex Brandon)
Posted inUncategorized

The Christian right’s abortion policy isn’t in my Torah

Rabbi Rachel Barenblat by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat and RNS May 4, 2022May 4, 2022
A 1690 illustration of the constellation Taurus, this Hebrew month's ruling sign, by Johannes Hevelius.
Posted inAstrolojew

Jewish horoscopes: When you get that feeling, you need Iyar’s healing

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude May 2, 2022
red curtain
Posted inTorah

If you’re closed down, maybe it’s time to open up your ‘curtain’

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg April 29, 2022April 28, 2022
Zvika Krieger, the new spiritual leader of Chochmat HaLev, has brought Jewish spirituality to many milieus — including leading Shabbat services at Burning Man in 2018. (Background photo/Sasha Juliard)
Posted inBay Area

Chochmat HaLev, Berkeley’s ‘graying’ Renewal synagogue, names Zvika Krieger new spiritual leader

by Dan Pine April 25, 2022April 25, 2022
People surround a Seder plate at the Shabbat Tent at the Coachella music festival in Indio, California. (Photo/RNS via Instagram-@chrism_arts)
Posted inTorah

The popularity of Passover defies the odds

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein April 22, 2022April 21, 2022
illustrative photo of rows of chairs in a synagogue
Posted inLocal Voice

An unexpected reminder of the wonder of a synagogue experience

Rabbi Darren Kleinberg by Rabbi Darren Kleinberg April 21, 2022
Part of the Passover Papyrus, written in Aramaic. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin)
Posted inOpinion

‘No beer on Passover, OK?’ —Jerusalem to Jewish soldiers in Egypt, 419 BCE

by Dr. Henry Abramson and Forward April 20, 2022April 21, 2022
headshot of Holly Blue Hawkins, and older white woman, inset in a larger picture of a cemetery
Posted inNorthern California

Expert in Jewish burials is devoted to making them more ‘green’

by Emma Goss April 20, 2022
Rapper Kosha Dillz, center, dressed as Moses, leads Passover mini-Seders outside the Shabbat Tent at the Coachella music festival in Indio, California. Dillz refers to the event as Matzahchella. (Photo/RNS via Instagram-@chrism_arts)
Posted inReligion

‘Matzahchella’: Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz hosts mini-seders at Coachella

by Kathryn Post and RNS April 20, 2022April 29, 2022
Donny Osmond in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."
Posted inTorah

How Donny Osmond and his ‘Dreamcoat’ figure in Passover’s miracles

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf April 15, 2022April 21, 2022

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