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matzah ball soup
Posted inAround the Bay, Food, Columns, Jewish Life, Organic Epicure

Bubbelah chef turns the traditional matzah ball on its head in Menlo Park

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 6, 2025August 7, 2025
Sarah Everard
Posted inAct Two, Around the Bay, Columns, Jewish Life

We hoped to offer comfort after a daughter’s tragic and very public death

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent August 6, 2025August 12, 2025
art of a headcovering
Posted inBooks, Columns, Culture, History, Off the Shelf

Book follows Jewish mother’s work to find her ‘disappeared’ family in Argentina

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman August 5, 2025August 5, 2025
woman walks across suspended footbridge
Posted inAround the Bay, Community, Jewish Life, Torah

‘Do not be afraid’: How unchecked fear can become a spiritual paralysis

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg July 31, 2025July 28, 2025
Ad from 1924
Posted inFrom the Archives, Columns

Jews said ‘yes’ to evolution as Scopes Monkey Trial was making history

by Maya Mirsky July 30, 2025July 30, 2025
Man holds large mushrooms
Posted inAround the Bay, Recipe, Food, Columns, Jewish Life, Organic Epicure

Tried shaggy parasols? San Jose chef’s mushroom cookbook guides foragers

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 28, 2025July 28, 2025
Detail of The Creation of the Sun and the Moon by Francisco de Holanda,
Posted inAround the Bay, Community, Columns, Jewish Life, Torah

Solar corrections to the lunar calendar demonstrate the wisdom of our ancestors

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf July 24, 2025July 24, 2025
Painting of Moses from the Torah
Posted inColumns, Torah

Even when violence is sanctioned, it must lead to peace — or forever mark our souls

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon July 17, 2025July 17, 2025
Archival photo of boys at summer camp
Posted inFrom the Archives, Community, Columns, Kids & Family, Jewish Life

100 years of tan lines, bug bites and Jewish camp memories

by Emma Goss July 16, 2025July 16, 2025
Pistachio-Crusted Duck Breasts with Black Cherry Mole and Pistachio Tortillas
Posted inAround the Bay, Food, Recipe, Columns, Jewish Life, Organic Epicure

She cooked up a new career, and now she’s a James Beard winner

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 10, 2025July 10, 2025

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