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Gidi (aka Capricorn) as drawn in a 1322 German Shavuot prayer book
Posted inAstrolojew

Month of Tevet: Growing up and getting real

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude January 2, 2020January 17, 2020
Rabbi Moshe Tom Heyn of Coastside Jewish Community
Posted inNorthern California

Drawn to the beauty of the coast, JuBu rabbi lucks into a congregation too

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 31, 2019January 7, 2020
a lit menorah in a window
Posted inTorah

How will we bring a little extra light into the world this Hanukkah?

Rabbi Stacy Friedman by Rabbi Stacy Friedman December 26, 2019December 24, 2019
Ram Dass, right, born Richard Albert, with his friend Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. (Joan Halifax/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inReligion

Discovering Ram Dass the Jew

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz by Rabbi Zac Kamenetz December 24, 2019
Jessica Meir's Hanukkah socks, seen far above earth. (JTA/Jessica Meir/Twitter)
Posted inHanukkah

Astronaut Jessica Meir tweets Hanukkah message from space

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA December 23, 2019
Jennifer Brodkey Kaufman of Sacramento is the new chair of the North American Board of Trustees for the Union for Reform Judaism. (URJ/Rob Dicker)
Posted inNorthern California

New chair of Union for Reform Judaism is a NorCal woman — again

by Gabriel Greschler December 20, 2019January 3, 2020
“Joseph Sold Into Egypt” by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inTorah

Caged? No escape? In Judaism, there is always hope.

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein December 19, 2019
Rabbi Yosef Langer of Chabad of S.F. lights the Bill Graham menorah in Union Square in 2014. (Photo/Natalie Schrik)
Posted inNews

Where to enjoy public menorah lightings in the Bay Area

by J. Staff December 18, 2019December 18, 2019
A damaged Torah scroll at Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills. (Twitter-@samyerbi)
Posted inFirst Person

The Torah at my childhood synagogue was desecrated. But we’re still standing.

Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh by Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh December 18, 2019December 18, 2019
Friday night prayers at the Union for Reform Judaism Biennial featured a 78-person choir and screens projecting the words of the service, Dec. 13, 2019. (Rob Dicker/Union for Reform Judaism)
Posted inReligion

Inside the biggest American Shabbat service of the year

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA December 17, 2019December 17, 2019

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