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Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the group's biennial in Chicago about combating racism, Dec. 12, 2019. (Courtesy Union for Reform Judaism)
Posted inNews

Reform Jewish movement votes to support reparations for African Americans

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA December 13, 2019December 17, 2019
"Jacob Sees Esau Coming to Meet Him," James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inColumns

Self-preservation and compassion collide in competing readings of this week’s Torah portion

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg December 13, 2019December 17, 2019
Lake Merritt in Oakland. (Flickr/Hitchster CC BY 2.0)
Posted inFirst Person

How did we get from ‘Rabbi, I hate your sermons’ to ‘I’m sorry for your loss’?

Rabbi Shelley Waldenberg by Rabbi Shelley Waldenberg December 12, 2019December 17, 2019
Photo of the offending Food & Wine article. (Twitter-@Mottel
Posted inFood

A non-kosher latke is actually the perfect symbol of American Judaism

Laura E. Adkins by Laura E. Adkins and JTA December 10, 2019December 17, 2019
The V'ahavta page of Siddur Masorti: An Egalitarian Səfaradi Siddur. (siddurmasorti.com)
Posted inHanukkah

3 Hanukkah gifts for the liturgy lover in your life

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 10, 2019December 17, 2019
From "Jacob Tells Laban that He Will Work for Rachel," woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1860
Posted inTorah

Refraining from public shaming can save a life, literally

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan December 6, 2019December 6, 2019
(From left) Rabbi Susan Silverman, Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback, Tiffany Haddish, Aliza Rose Silverman and Billy Crystal, who is filming a movie with Haddish. (JTA/Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Netflix)
Posted inComedy

Tiffany Haddish’s celebrity-filled bat mitzvah, in photos

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA December 4, 2019December 4, 2019
Hernán Rustein (right) at the Vatican, where he sang in 2014. (Fotografia Felici)
Posted inReligion

Latin America’s rising ‘passion’ for Reform Judaism coming to Bay Area this Shabbat

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 3, 2019December 3, 2019
Ava Hinz is a student at Mountain View High School. (Wikimedia/Bahn Mi CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inYouth Voice

It’s time for High Holidays to become official school holidays

Ava Hinz by Ava Hinz December 2, 2019December 2, 2019
Thousands of rabbis who serve as emissaries for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement pose for their annual "class picture" in front of Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Nov. 24, 2019. (Mendel Grossbaum/Chabad.org)
Posted inOpinion

Look past the beard and black hat — you’ll see a rainbow

Rabbi Eli Friedman by Rabbi Eli Friedman December 2, 2019December 2, 2019

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