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The Barcheinu Avinu Zoom event, commemorating the 26th anniversary of the Chabad Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson's death, was joined by more than 45,000 devices. (Photo/JTA-Itzik Roytman-Chabad.org)
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100,000 people reportedly attended Zoom commemoration for Chabad Rebbe

Laura E. Adkins by Laura E. Adkins and JTA June 26, 2020June 26, 2020
Detail from "The Death of Korah, Dathan and Abiram" by Gustave Doré, 1865
Posted inTorah

Bad apples come from bad barrels

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan June 26, 2020June 25, 2020
An Israeli postage stamp from 1961 depicts Cancer, the sign of the Hebrew month of Tammuz. The Hebrew text reads "Mazal Sartan — the sign of Cancer" and "Chodesh Tammuz — the month of Tammuz." (Photo/Flickr-karen horton CC BY-NC 2.0)
Posted inColumns

Month of Tammuz: The last stand of Saturn, ruling planet of the Jewish people

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude June 23, 2020June 24, 2020
Rainbow-colored challah at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav's 2018 Pride Shabbat. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inPride

Don’t let Pride’s 50th anniversary pass by. Lots of Jewish resources are available.

9mugmychalcopeland by Rabbi Mychal Copeland June 22, 2020
Rose Hayes lights a rainbow of candles at a past Pride Seder at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav. 
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‘Pride Seder,’ virtual this year, honors liberation history of LGBTQ Jews 

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky June 19, 2020June 22, 2020
Marchers in the 48th Annual Juneteenth Day Festival in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 19, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Dylan Buell-Getty Images for VIBE)
Posted inReligion

Amid a national reckoning over race, Jews are embracing Juneteenth

Josefin DolstenPhilissa Cramer by Josefin Dolsten, Philissa Cramer and JTA June 19, 2020
Spiced Pomegranate Meringue Pie
Posted inRecipe

A pie and a sundae inspired by this week’s Torah portion

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer June 19, 2020
Giovanni Lanfranco's "Moses and the Messengers from Canaan"
Posted inColumns

Back then I did not, but today I stand up against prejudice and fear

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon June 18, 2020June 19, 2020
"Blowing the Trumpet at the Feast of the New Moon," Holman Bible, 1890
Posted inReligion

Sound the trumpets of justice for all

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg June 12, 2020June 11, 2020
Mayyim Hayyim, a community mikvah in Newton, Massachusetts, closed its doors to prevent coronavirus transmission. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Mayyim Hayyim)
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‘I can’t finish my conversion because of Covid’

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler June 11, 2020

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