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Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland held its first indoor service in a year, March 14, 2021.
Posted inFirst Person

Getting vaccinated was a lesson in humility and gratitude

Rabbi Gershon Albert by Rabbi Gershon Albert March 15, 2021March 16, 2021
Israeli troops training in 2017. (Photo/JTA-Israel Defense Forces)
Posted inNews

Israel’s military says it has reached herd immunity to Covid

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA March 15, 2021
Artist Naomie Kremer giving a virtual tour of her painting exhibit “Embodiment” at Modernism in San Francisco, which closed temporarily due to the pandemic.
Posted inCulture

Our Pandemic Year: Artists faced a choice — pivot or perish

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 15, 2021October 15, 2024
Rabbi Mark Bloom leads a socially distanced outdoor Friday night service at Temple Beth Abraham in Oakland, March 5, 2021. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inReligion

Our Pandemic Year: Bay Area rabbis look ahead to a post-pandemic future

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman March 11, 2021March 16, 2021
Mikhail Karton, a physician assistant who administers the vaccine at skilled nursing facilities as a volunteer, gets a vaccine of his own.
Posted inLocal Voice

Which blessing should we say when we get the Covid vaccine?

Rabbi Daniel Stein by Rabbi Daniel Stein March 10, 2021
A Passover seder in 2019. (Photo/JTA-Creative Touch Imagine Ltd/Nurphoto)
Posted inReligion

New CDC guidelines could make a family Passover possible

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward March 9, 2021
Nurse Manager Teri Grados receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine from Mary Ann Salinas at San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, Dec. 21, 2020. (Gabriel Greschler/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

From Los Altos, she tracks vaccination volunteer slots across the country

by Patricia Corrigan March 9, 2021March 8, 2021
Entrance to San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inSeniors

Layoffs at SF Jewish senior home, as Covid retreats

by Gabriel Greschler March 8, 2021March 22, 2021
People eat at the Hamotzi restaurant in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2021, after Israel reopened restaurants, bars and cafes to those who have been vaccinated. (Photo/JTA-Menahem Kahana-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

With 41% of the country vaccinated, Israel begins reopening

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA March 8, 2021March 8, 2021
San Jose Hotel engineering manager Rocky Ontiveros, 60, wears a Texas mask on March 3, 2021 in Austin, Texas. (Photo/JTA-Montinique Monroe-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Jewish conservatives plan ‘mask-burning’ party to celebrate end of Texas mandate

by Andrew Lapin and JTA March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

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