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Jacob's sons carrying his body to Egypt, from the 1483 Nuremberg Bible.
Posted inColumns

Let’s head into the new year in a new frame of mind

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon December 31, 2020January 4, 2021
Materials used to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, Dec. 21, 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inReligion

Which blessing should you say when you get the Covid-19 vaccine? 5 rabbis weigh in.

Laura E. Adkins by Laura E. Adkins and JTA December 23, 2020
D’li the water bucket (AKA Aquarius), the astrological sign of the Jewish people, in a 1322 German prayerbook.
Posted inAstrolojew

The ‘great conjunction’ of Jupiter and Saturn: good for the Jews?

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude December 18, 2020December 17, 2020
"Joseph Interprets Dreams While in Prison" by James Tissot, ca. 1900.
Posted inTorah

Today’s lesson: A better tomorrow

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein December 18, 2020December 17, 2020
A completed page in “The Kabbalah Coloring Book: A Book of Creation.”
Posted inBooks

No time to study Kabbalah? Try the coloring book

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and Forward December 17, 2020December 17, 2020
Congregation Beth Israel's second building, on Geary Boulevard, was completed in 1908. It was almost completed in 1906, but was destroyed by the earthquake and had to be rebuilt. In 1969, Beth Israel merged with Temple Judea to form Congregation Beth Israel Judea. Decades later, BIJ is merging with yet another synagogue, Congregation B'nai Emunah. (Photo/Courtesy Congregation Beth Israel Judea)
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Mazel tov — it’s a merger! Two historic San Francisco synagogues become one

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 16, 2020December 16, 2020
The giant menorah in Union Square in San Francisco on the first night of Hanukkah, Dec. 10, 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inHanukkah

The pandemic can’t stop Union Square menorah lighting in San Francisco

by Gabriel Greschler December 11, 2020December 14, 2020
The Maccabees depicted in a page from a 14th-century Italian illuminated manuscript.
Posted inTorah

The Maccabees stood up to the wicked — we need to do the same

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg December 11, 2020December 10, 2020
Rabbanit Jenna Englender dances with the Torah during her graduation ceremony from Yeshivat Maharat in New York, June 17, 2019. (Photo/JTA - Shulamit Seidler-Feller - Maharat)
Posted inReligion

Men have dominated Jewish texts for most of history. These women are trying to change that.

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 10, 2020December 10, 2020
Cantors and musicians perform at the annual Hanukkah event at the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam, Dec. 22, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Eduardus Lee)
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How Hanukkah returned to Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall decades after the Holocaust

by JTA December 7, 2020December 7, 2020

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