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“Noah’s Ark on the Mount Ararat” by Simone de Myle, 1570
Posted inReligion

40 days and 40 nights: What the Bible can teach us about quarantine

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein June 10, 2020
People at a memorial service at North Central University in Minneapolis pause silently for eight minutes and 46 seconds in honor of George Floyd, June 4, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Stephen Maturen-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

What I heard at George Floyd’s memorial service broke me

Rabbi Aaron Weininger by Rabbi Aaron Weininger June 5, 2020June 5, 2020
"Samson Puts Down the Pillars" by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inTorah

Self-flagellation will only get you so far on the path to spiritual growth

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein June 5, 2020June 4, 2020
Shuly Rubin Schwartz was named the eighth chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary.(Photo/Ellen Dubin Photography)
Posted inU.S.

Shuly Rubin Schwartz named first woman chancellor of Jewish Theological Seminary

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA June 2, 2020June 2, 2020
The Kehillah Jewish High School's Moot Beit Din team making their case.
Posted inEducation

Kehillah high school team wins national ‘Moot Beit Din’

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky June 1, 2020
A 1907 postcard depicts the Israelites gathered at the foot of Mount Sinai.
Posted inShavuot

Torah is the water supply that makes Jewish life possible

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg May 28, 2020
The Haifa Municipal Band playing in the 1933 Bikurim parade. (Photo/ GPO via Wikipedia)
Posted inShavuot

When Haifa was party central at Shavuot

Rachel NeimanISRAEL21c logo by Rachel Neiman and ISRAEL21c May 27, 2020
Many traditional Shavuot foods, like cheesecake, are hard for lactose-intolerant Jews to digest. (Pixabay)
Posted inShavuot

Virtual Shavuot events around the Bay

Rebecca Landau by Rebecca Landau May 27, 2020July 9, 2021
Urban Adamah's "Party in the Sukkah: Adults Only" event in 2015. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inReligion

Mainstream Judaism needs to wake up

Yoav Schlesinger by Yoav Schlesinger May 25, 2020May 26, 2020
The light-filled sanctuary of Kol Shofar in Tiburon (Photo/HCLA)
Posted inBay Area, Columns, Religion, Jew in the Pew, Jewish Life, News

Shabbat online? Conservative synagogues get OK, but some were already doing it

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 25, 2020May 26, 2020

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