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a classroom with desks spaced evenly throughout
Posted inUncategorized

Let’s keep educating our kids, but give school a rest during this ‘shmita year’

Vicki Haberkorn Abeles by Vicki Haberkorn Abeles October 21, 2020October 22, 2020
a seated smiling old man with a beard and colorful kippah
Posted inU.S., Religion, Jewish Life, News

Rabbi Art Green (still) believes Hasidic ideas are key to a vibrant modern Judaism

by Ben Harris and JTA October 19, 2020October 19, 2020
Akrav (AKA Scorpio), ruling sign of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan, as drawn in a 1322 German Shavuot prayer book.
Posted inColumns

Month of Cheshvan: Transforming bitterness into greatness

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude October 19, 2020October 19, 2020
Adam and Eve as depicted in the Escorial Beatus, a 10th-century illuminated manuscript.
Posted inTorah

Adam and Eve and the problem of loneliness

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen October 16, 2020October 16, 2020
A chuppah awaits a wedding couple. (Photo/JTA-Mendy Hechtman-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Britain’s Liberal rabbis begin allowing interfaith couples to get married under a chuppah

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA October 6, 2020October 6, 2020
Congregation Emanu-El
Posted inBay Area

Despite green light, not all San Francisco synagogues will open

by Dan Pine October 2, 2020October 14, 2020
(Photo/Flickr-zeevzeev CC BY 2.0)
Posted inTorah

Under the sukkah with the Rabbi of Chelm, the city of holy fools

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan October 2, 2020October 1, 2020
Jewish men gather in a communal sukkah in a displaced person's camp in Amberg, Germany, October 1947.
 (Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum-Courtesy of Abraham Malach)
Posted inHolidays

75 years ago, my parents and other Holocaust survivors celebrated Sukkot on their own terms

Menachem Z. Rosensaft by Menachem Z. Rosensaft and JTA October 1, 2020October 1, 2020
a middle-aged man and two kids hang paper chains under a wooden sukkah
Posted inReligion

Bay Area Jews weigh pandemic risks: To gather under the sukkah or not?

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky September 30, 2020September 30, 2020
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Posted inMixed & Matched

My wife and kids are Jewish. Is it OK to pray in Jesus’ name?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler September 30, 2020

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