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Kiki Lipsett as Esther in the 2019 "Irreverently Yours, The Shushan Queens" Purim spiel at the Starline Social Club in Oakland. (Photo/Courtesy Kiki Lipsett)
Posted inOpinion

Purim reminds us how to heal hearts through laughter

by J. Editorial Board February 18, 2021
In the 2019 "Irreverently Yours, The Shushan Queens" Purim spiel, Haman and the king plotted to build a wall around Shushan to keep the Jews out. (Photo/Courtesy Kiki Lipsett)
Posted inComedy

What are we ready to joke about during this pandemic Purim?

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 17, 2021March 15, 2021
Haman shooting an arrow at the zodiac to forecast the future in an 18th-century Dutch megillah. (Photo/Collection of Shalom Sabar)
Posted inColumns

Month of Adar: Milk the magic for all it’s worth

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude February 16, 2021
Dr. Bruce Feldstein, a chaplain at Stanford Medicine, on his way to meet with a newborn's family during Sukkot.
Posted inNews

Jewish hospital chaplains are on the pandemic’s spiritual front line

by Gabriel Greschler February 16, 2021February 17, 2021
Illustration of a donkey by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649.
Posted inTorah

Rise above the trap of hating or blowing off ‘the other’

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg February 12, 2021
(Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inMixed & Matched

Can my baby have an Orthodox conversion?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler February 10, 2021
Trump's impeachment lawyer David Schoen covering his hand with his head before drinking water. (Screenshot)
Posted inU.S.

Why did Trump’s impeachment lawyer David Schoen keep putting his hand on his head?

Laura E. Adkins by Laura E. Adkins, Ron Kampeas and JTA February 9, 2021
Lena Sclove is a prospective rabbinical student whose husband is Hindu. (Photo/Mahip Rathore)
Posted inReligion

As more American Jews intermarry, seminaries face calls to ordain intermarried rabbis

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and Forward February 9, 2021February 11, 2021
"Meeting of Moses and Jethro" by Willem van Swanenburg, 1607.
Posted inTorah

A lesson about building bridges — something Jethro taught us 

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein February 5, 2021February 4, 2021
A group of early Bayit residents at a wedding in 1985.
Posted inNews

Jewish student co-op in Berkeley celebrates the big 4-0

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 2, 2021February 2, 2021

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