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Rabbi Zac Kamenetz is one of the organizers of the first ever Jewish Psychedelic Summit. (Photo/file; Background/Courtesy Shefa-Shannon Levin)
Posted inReligion

What a trip! The first ever Jewish Psychedelic Summit is about to take off

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky April 12, 2021April 12, 2021
"The Two Priests Are Destroyed" by James Tissot, ca. 1900, shows Nadav and Avihu being struck down in this week's Torah portion, Shemini.
Posted inColumns

In a crisis, we can only control how we choose to respond

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon April 9, 2021April 8, 2021
Rabbi Ari Cartun's family having Shabbat dinner together, March 2020.
Posted inAct Two

Pandemic Shabbats offer lessons to carry forward

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent April 8, 2021
A rose is placed on the Berlin Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Maja Hitij-Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

How a new Holocaust ‘seder’ is preparing for a post-survivor world

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA April 7, 2021April 7, 2021
Holocaust Memorial at the California Legion of Honor in San Francisco (Photo/Library of Congress-Carol M. Highsmith)
Posted inYom HaShoah

Bay Area programs to honor Holocaust victims, survivors

by J. Staff April 2, 2021April 5, 2021
a 19th century painting of the scene
Posted inColumns

Emerging from Covid is our parting-of-the-Red-Sea moment

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg April 2, 2021April 1, 2021
(Photo/Flickr-lawriecate CC BY 2.0)
Posted inMixed & Matched

At a loss after my rabbi said I’m not allowed to read Torah

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler April 1, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff participate in a virtual White House seder, March 25, 2021. (Screenshot)
Posted inNews

Doug Emhoff hosts the White House’s first online Passover seder

by Ron Kampeas and JTA March 26, 2021
Smoke from the sacrificial altar rises up from Jerusalem in this 1890 painting by James Tissot.
Posted inTorah

We are imperfect — but commanded to do better

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein March 26, 2021March 25, 2021
Brandeis University students weighed in on their school's first-ever Passover menu at a seder taste test provided by a local kosher caterer in March 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Brandeis Hillel)
Posted inReligion

What makes this Passover different from all others? Brandeis University is celebrating.

by Penny Schwartz and JTA March 25, 2021

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