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From left, Marc Mazer, Susan Talon-Mazer, Rabbi Dan Goldblatt and Zoë Francesca Goldblatt of the AriYael Jewish Healing Center. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inReligion

A Bay Area Jewish healing center expands as it embraces mourning, celebration

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz April 15, 2025April 16, 2025

On a clear, crisp December morning a month after her 39-year-old husband, Evan, died of cancer, Mikaela Dunitz immersed herself in a Berkeley neighbor’s hot tub as Zoë Francesca Goldblatt […]

Aiden Arthurs receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine at the Jewish Federation/JARC's offices in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, May 13, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Jeff Kowalsky-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

As Covid vaccines for kids arrive, these rabbis (and their kids) are ready with new prayers

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA November 3, 2021November 3, 2021
Rabbi Chai Levy in the sanctuary at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley.
Posted inReligion

How Jewish rituals can ease us back into the world

Rabbi Chai Levy by Rabbi Chai Levy May 24, 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
Christie Moore getting her first Covid-19 vaccination.
Posted inU.S.

Jewish oncologist reflects on making a bracha on her vaccination

by Shira Feder and JTA January 4, 2021January 5, 2021
Videos circulated of a man reciting a prayer for victory for Donald Trump in an Orthodox synagogue Tuesday morning. (Screenshot from WhatsApp)
Posted inNews

Anxious Jewish voters turn to an old standby: prayer

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA November 3, 2020
Rabbi Sara Shendelman with a lulav and etrog grown at her house (and at the park across the street) (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inJew in the Pew

Getting creative and hyperlocal with your lulav and etrog

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky October 15, 2019October 16, 2019
pair of wedding rings
Posted inJewish Life

Rethinking rituals: It’s no longer as simple as saying ‘I do’

George Altshuler by George Altshuler March 9, 2017March 13, 2017

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