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Climate change is already affecting California, with fire season getting longer and more destructive, as seen in this photo of
the Fort Sage Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area, which was closed temporarily in July 2017 due to fires.
 (Photo/Courtesy Bureau of Land Management)
Posted inOpinion

In 2020 election, American Zionists must make climate change their top priority

Rabbi Jonah Rank by Rabbi Jonah Rank February 25, 2020February 27, 2020
Haman shooting an arrow at the zodiac to forecast the future in an 18th-century Dutch megillah. (Photo/Collection of Shalom Sabar)
Posted inPurim

Month of Adar: Facts are flexible as we don the masks of Purim

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude February 24, 2020March 2, 2020
Rabbi Avram Mlotek, center, performs his first same-sex wedding, February 2020. (Courtesy of Mlotek)
Posted inU.S., Religion, Jewish Life, News

Nearly a year after endorsing gay marriages, Orthodox rabbi performs his first

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA February 20, 2020
A group of women lead a sisterhood Shabbat dinner at a synagogue in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1943. (Photo/Flickr-Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest)
Posted inTorah

How do we save ourselves from ourselves? Shabbat.

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg February 20, 2020February 21, 2020
Rapper Nissim Black's new single says that he's "Hitler's worst nightmare." (Screenshot from "Mothaland Bounce" video)
Posted inCulture

Orthodox rapper Nissim Black reintroduces himself to the world

by Emily Burack and JTA February 19, 2020
a generic image of a girl reading from the Torah
Posted inMixed & Matched

How do I deal with my tween’s resistance to having a bat mitzvah?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler February 19, 2020February 19, 2020
Cantor Jack Mendelson in "A Cantor's Head"
Posted inJew in the Pew

A master of synagogue music finds his style and career fading in touching documentary

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 14, 2020August 17, 2021
A 1907 postcard depicts the Israelites gathered at the foot of Mount Sinai.
Posted inTorah

Lessons from the Altar — keep moving forward

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen February 14, 2020February 13, 2020
From "Abraham Sees Sodom in Flames" by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inYouth Voice

Was Abraham autistic?

Meyer Lewis by Meyer Lewis February 12, 2020
Detail from “The Gathering of the Manna” by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inTorah

What this week’s Torah portion teaches us about poverty in the Bay Area

Maharat Victoria Sutton by Maharat Victoria Sutton February 7, 2020February 6, 2020

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