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Shabbat

Rabbi Jeremy Sher leads the Open Shabbat service at the 16th Street BART station in San Francisco. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inBay Area

‘Open Shabbat’ welcomes the Sabbath with San Francisco’s unhoused

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman July 25, 2022November 11, 2023
Yanira Quinones, who came with her family from Westchester, recites a Juneteenth poem at the Be'chol Lashon Juneteenth Shabbat in New York City. (Photo/Forward-Julian Voloj-Be'chol Lashon)
Posted inU.S.

‘Delightfully uncomfortable’: Commemorating Juneteenth at 3 Shabbat events

TaRessa Stovall by TaRessa Stovall and Forward June 20, 2022June 20, 2022
Challahs made by members of the Hardly Strictly Jewish Women’s Group. (Photo/June Bell)
Posted inJewish Life

This Jewish women’s group is ‘Hardly Strictly’ about challah

by Emma Goss December 16, 2021March 15, 2022
(From left) Eruv expert Rabbi Haim Jachter, Beth Jacob members Raphi Shorser and Michael Sosebee and Rabbi Gershon Albert out on an eruv boundary–hunting expedition in August.
Posted inNews

Major expansion of Oakland eruv is a ‘game-changer’ for Orthodox

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 6, 2021December 7, 2021
Za’atar kebabs with vegetables from “52 Shabbats: Friday Night Dinners Inspired by a Global Jewish Kitchen” by Faith Kramer. (Photo/Clara Rice)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

‘52 Shabbats’: Our columnist’s cookbook takes you around the world for a year of Friday night dinners

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 12, 2021March 15, 2022
Greek Cauliflower Lemon & Egg Soup (Photo/Faith Kramer)
Posted inRecipe

Cold soups: the ideal summer Shabbat dinner or lunch

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer August 10, 2021August 11, 2021
Cash registers were invented to counteract employees' temptation to steal;  a "Shabbat box" can help keep mobile devices out of our hands on Shabbat.
Posted inTorah

How the cash register figures into a soulful, joyous Shabbat

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg August 5, 2021August 6, 2021
Rabbi Ari Cartun's family having Shabbat dinner together, March 2020.
Posted inAct Two

Pandemic Shabbats offer lessons to carry forward

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent April 8, 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
(Photo/Wikimedia-Olaf.herfurth CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inTorah

Your Shabbat table is magic. No, really. The rabbis said so.

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan February 26, 2021February 25, 2021

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