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Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz. (Photo/Wikimedia-Dvortygirl CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inMixed & Matched

With mikvahs closed, complete your conversion in wild waters

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler December 15, 2021December 15, 2021

Dear Dawn: The final component of my conversion will be the mikvah. I want to complete this step, but our local mikvah has been closed through the pandemic. Is the […]

Cantor Toby Glaser rehearses a prerecorded High Holiday service at Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco, Aug. 2020. (Photo/Michael Fox)
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Prerecorded services, backyard worship, a drive-in: finding new ways to uphold tradition this High Holiday season

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 20, 2020August 20, 2020
The light-filled sanctuary of Kol Shofar in Tiburon (Photo/HCLA)
Posted inBay Area, Columns, Religion, Jew in the Pew, Jewish Life, News

Shabbat online? Conservative synagogues get OK, but some were already doing it

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 25, 2020May 26, 2020
A police officer stands guard outside Temple Sinai, a synagogue just a half-mile away from the Tree of Life in Pittsburgh, the site of a mass shooting on Oct. 27, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Jeff Swensen-Getty Images)
Posted inBay Area

The new normal? Bay Area synagogues rethink security

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman July 25, 2019August 8, 2019
Rabbi Jaymee Alpert leads a prayer during “Neshama Body & Soul” at Congregation Beth David in Saratoga on Dec. 16. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inJew in the Pew

Is it an exercise class or a prayer service? All I know is I’m very sore.

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky January 9, 2019January 9, 2019
Rabbi Jaymee Alpert at her previous synagogue in New York
Posted inNews

New South Bay rabbi mixes physical fitness with spiritual fitness

by Rob Gloster May 30, 2018

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