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Rabbi Mark Bloom streams a live Shabbat service from Temple Beth Abraham in Oakland, May 2020. (Photo/Michael Fox)
Posted inNews

Synagogues begin sketching out plans for post-quarantine reopening

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 15, 2020May 15, 2020
Bar Kochba-era coins found in Jerusalem. (Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inTorah

In these times, acknowledge the bad, but don’t neglect the good

Maharat Victoria Sutton by Maharat Victoria Sutton May 15, 2020May 14, 2020
Rabbi Lavey Derby (center) of the Peninsula JCC leads a group meditation class before the pandemic. (Photo/Courtesy PJCC)
Posted inUncategorized

How Jewish meditation is helping people silence the pandemic anxiety

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 12, 2020May 13, 2020
Reuben Friedman (right) with his father, Brad Friedman (left) and a sibling during his March 19, 2020, Zoom bar mitzvah. (Photo/Courtesy Brad Friedman)
Posted inMixed & Matched

My son’s bar mitzvah has to be postponed due to Covid-19. What should I do?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler May 12, 2020
Renee Godinez had her son pour spring water on her to symbolize immersing in a mikvah. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Godinez)
Posted inReligion

Converting to Judaism during the pandemic: delay — or get creative?

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA May 11, 2020
The exterior of San Francisco's Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, as rendered in Miecraft. (Screenshot/Courtesy Joel Lachter)
Posted inReligion

A virtual bar mitzvah party — in a Minecraft replica of local synagogue

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 8, 2020May 12, 2020
(Photo/pikrepo.com)
Posted inJewish Life

To prevent another pandemic, our Shabbat meals need to include far less meat

Melissa Hoffman by Melissa Hoffman May 8, 2020May 8, 2020
(Photo/Flickr-lawriecate CC BY 2.0)
Posted inTorah

The Torah on telling truth from falsehood

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan May 8, 2020May 8, 2020
Rabbi Yosef Langer of Chabad at Sea wants to buy a boat — this boat. (Photo/Courtesy Five Star Yachts)
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Chabad at Sea? SF’s ‘Rally Rabbi’ is hoping his ship comes in

by Dan Pine May 7, 2020May 11, 2020
An Omer Project gathering in 2014. (Photo/Max A. Cherney)
Posted inReligion

Omer Project goes from the streets to the home this year

by J. Staff May 7, 2020

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