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Jewish Vocational Services helped Monica Rivera get a job right as the pandemic began. (Photo/Courtesy JVS)
Posted inNews

Our Pandemic Year: Change is here to stay, say heads of local Jewish agencies

by Gabriel Greschler March 17, 2021March 17, 2021
A middle school student at Brandeis Marin at an outdoor classroom, February 2021. (Photo/Anya Shuteroff)
Posted inEducation

Our Pandemic Year: Jewish day schools had to relearn the ABCs of teaching

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 16, 2021March 16, 2021
Argentinian Jews moving to Israel get off the plane at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv in 2020. (Photo/JTA-Jewish Agency for Israel)
Posted inWorld

Driven by uncertainty at home, Argentinian Jews flock to Israel

by JTA March 16, 2021
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
Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg appears at the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, March 2, 2020. (JTA/Saul Loeb/Getty Images)
Posted inNews

No AIPAC conference? No problem. We’re meeting for coffee on Zoom.

by Ron Kampeas and JTA March 12, 2021March 15, 2021
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

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