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Rabbi Amanda Russell reads from Congregation Beth Sholom's newly commissioned Megillah. (Photo/Courtesy Beth Sholom)
Posted inUncategorized

Why my synagogue commissioned a groundbreaking new Megillah

Rabbi Amanda Russell by Rabbi Amanda Russell March 6, 2023March 6, 2023
Posted inYouth Voice

Overhyping antisemitism? Maybe I’m the frog in slowly boiling water

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward March 3, 2023
Shaina Gordon, daughter of Yisroel and Mushky Gordon, out to play after a week of snow. (Photo/Courtesy Chabad Mammoth)
Posted inUncategorized, Northern California

Shabbat services on ice after record snow in Eastern Sierra

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene March 2, 2023March 6, 2023
The Governor's Holocaust and Genocide Education Council meeting for the first time on Feb. 15, 2023. (Photo/Office of the Governor)
Posted inCalifornia

Meeting kicks off attempt to improve Holocaust education in California

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene March 2, 2023March 6, 2023
“Das Purim-Fest” by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1873
Posted inPurim

With pear salad and ‘La Bamba,’ it’s time for a Bay Area Purim

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 2, 2023
(Photo/Union for Reform Judaism)
Posted inLocal Voice

Why we at Sha’ar Zahav support reparations for slavery

by Deborah Levy March 1, 2023March 27, 2023
Performers in the 2020 version of "The Shushan Queens." (Photo/Eli Zaturanski)
Posted inTheater

‘Shushan Queens’: A queer Purim musical jabs at antisemitism through song

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb February 28, 2023March 6, 2023
The Leviathan Jewish Journal debuted in 1972. (Photo/Leviathan Jewish Journal Archive)
Posted inEducation

Started as a Jewish hippie journal, UC Santa Cruz’s Leviathan turns 50

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss February 28, 2023March 6, 2023
Michael Kaye of Invei Wines. (Photo/Courtesy Invei Wines)
Posted inWine

In a home garage, two kosher winemakers are crushing it

by Dan Pine February 28, 2023March 13, 2023
Leo Hmelnitsky and the driver who helped him cross the Ukrainian border in 2022.
Posted inBay Area

Walnut Creek man on a mission for Ukraine

by Sue Fishkoff February 27, 2023February 28, 2023

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