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EPACENTER, a new youth creative development center in East Palo Alto funded by the John & Marcia Goldman Foundation. (Photo/Chris Bagley)
Posted inCulture

Goldmans fund gleaming new arts center for East Palo Alto youth

by Liz Harris September 2, 2021
(Illustration/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inTech

Need advice for the High Holidays? Ask the Robo-Rabbi.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 31, 2021August 31, 2021
Rabbi Amy Eilberg and the Rev. Debra Murray
Posted inBay Area

Jewish leaders rally around Black Palo Alto pastor facing harassment

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 30, 2021August 30, 2021
Among the Rosh Hashanah recipes in Beth Lee’s new cookbook: Sweet Challah Rolls with Apple Currant Filling.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

South Bay blogger’s new cookbook is full of Rosh Hashanah recipes

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 30, 2021March 15, 2022
(From left) Demonstrators use a tutari, a shankh, shofars, a drum and bells to "Make a Holy Noise for Climate Change" on Aug. 25 in San Jose. (Photo/George Barahona)
Posted inUncategorized

Jews and other faith groups make ‘holy noise’ for action on climate change in San Jose

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb August 26, 2021September 1, 2021
Rabbi Sheldon Lewis in uniform in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Posted inBooks

Rabbi recounts heartrending year in Vietnam in new memoir

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 26, 2021August 26, 2021
Foreground: Rabbi Daniel Lehmann is the new head of school at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School. Background: a socially distanced second-grade classroom at Hausner in July of 2020. (Photo/Gabriel Sanchez)
Posted inEducation

Rabbi Daniel Lehmann rekindles family connection as new head of Hausner school

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 25, 2021
Left: Jacob Kaplan-Lipkin as a bar mitzvah with Cantor Doron Shapira at Peninsula Sinai in Congregation, 2010. Right: Years later, he's getting ready to help lead Peninsula Sinai for the High Holidays.
Posted inHigh Holidays

As a kid he loved his Foster City synagogue. This High Holidays, he’s going to help lead it.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 24, 2021August 24, 2021
A Mother's Day celebration for Afghan families hosted by JFCS East Bay in 2011. (Courtesy JFCS East Bay)
Posted inBay Area

‘We’re picking up people every day’: Jewish orgs scramble to assist Afghan refugees arriving in Bay Area

by Gabriel Greschler August 20, 2021
Students at Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto during the 2020-21 school year. (Photo/Deena Riddle)
Posted inEducation

Kehillah students must be vaxed. Other local Jewish schools are still weighing their options.

by Gabriel Greschler August 18, 2021August 23, 2021

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