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Shira Haas in "Unorthodox"
Posted inCulture

Young ‘Shtisel’ star leaves it all behind in Netflix’s ‘Unorthodox’

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz March 11, 2020
Aquarian Minyan's Purim celebration at Ashkenaz in Berkeley. (ALEX MADONIK)
Posted inHolidays

Despite coronavirus, public Purim celebrations go on around Bay Area

by Sue Fishkoff March 10, 2020March 11, 2020
Businessmen talking in secrecy. (JTA/GETTY)
Posted inOpinion

A year ago, I said #MeToo. Purim reminds me of all we haven’t learned.

Sheila Katz by Sheila Katz March 9, 2020March 9, 2020
Purim groggers, masks and hamantaschen (Photo/JTA-Getty)
Posted inReligion

Purim is a holiday for partying. This year, the coronavirus makes things different.

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA March 9, 2020
Rabbi Yisroel Labkowski (right), director of Chabad of Lamorinda, with Rabbi Avrohom Chayempour, program and youth director.
Posted inJewish Life

This East Bay Chabad is selling discount kosher meat

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 9, 2020March 30, 2020
Participants in the “No Hate, No Fear” solidarity march in lower Manhattan, Jan. 5, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Erik McGregor-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inTorah

How much spiritual energy should we devote to anti-Semitism?

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg March 6, 2020March 5, 2020
Rabbi Yossi Marcus, coeditor of a new edition of the Megillah. (FILE PHOTO)
Posted inReligion

Chabad edition offers mystical insights into Book of Esther

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 4, 2020September 23, 2022
Five-year-old Greta Salmi as Queen Esther.
Posted inPurim

An eye-opening moment for a 5-year-old Queen Esther (me)

Greta Salmi by Greta Salmi March 3, 2020March 2, 2020
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inTorah

Our God is unfathomable. So where does that leave us?

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein February 28, 2020February 27, 2020
Two of Aimee Golant's Priestly Blessing bracelets
Posted inReligion

Judaica artist Aimee Golant’s new work tries to heal religious divide

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 25, 2020

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