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The "Haggadeck," a deck of cards that's also a Passover haggadah, comes in a small drawstring bag. Seder plate not included. (Photo/Courtesy Taya Mâ Shere)
Posted inPassover

Want a haggadah with poetry? Or maybe you’d rather say, ‘Deal me in.’ 

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 4, 2021March 4, 2021
Screenshot from an ad by the right-wing United Torah Judaism party that appeared to compare Reform Jewish converts to dogs. (Screenshot)
Posted inNews

Dogs, death and ‘clowns’: Israeli Orthodox politicians are again attacking Reform Jews

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA March 4, 2021
Entrance to the Home of Eternity cemetery in Oakland. (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inNews

Sinai funeral home makes livestreaming standard at graveside services

by Gabriel Greschler March 2, 2021March 2, 2021
Two journalists in love: Nellie Bowles (left) and fiancee Bari Weiss.
Posted inJewish Life

S.F.-raised journalist’s path to Judaism started on a date with Bari Weiss

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert March 2, 2021October 8, 2025
A Purim parade in Tel Aviv, Feb. 26, 2021. Celebrations took place during the day because the government imposed a curfew to prevent the spread of Covid-19. (Photo/JTA-Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Masks of all kinds: Scenes from a pandemic Purim across the world

by JTA February 28, 2021
(Photo/Wikimedia-Olaf.herfurth CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inTorah

Your Shabbat table is magic. No, really. The rabbis said so.

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan February 26, 2021February 25, 2021
A view from the entrance to Kol Emeth's new sanctuary, looking straight at the Ark.
Posted inNews

Palo Alto shul’s new building blends Biblical old and Silicon Valley new

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten February 23, 2021March 4, 2021
(Illustration/JTA-Rebecca Kerzner)
Posted inReligion

For this second pandemic Purim, let’s focus on giving tzedakah

Sharon Weiss-Greenberg by Sharon Weiss-Greenberg and JTA February 22, 2021
Keshira haLev Fife, a kohenet (Hebrew priestess), is the founder and leader of Kesher Pittsburgh, an independent, post-denominational Jewish community. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Fife)
Posted inOpinion

Don’t call them ‘fringe’: Innovative Jewish groups seek respect from the mainstream

Gary Rosenblatt by Gary Rosenblatt and JTA February 22, 2021February 22, 2021
“Moses and Joshua Bowing Before the Ark” by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inTorah

The power and the mystery of the cherubim, explained

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon February 19, 2021February 18, 2021

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