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The ark doors at Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin, Texas, mimic an ancient depiction of the Hebrew calendar. (Photo/Rabbi Neil Blumofe)
Posted inFirst Person, Columns, Religion, Jewish Life, Torah, Opinion

It could be easy to lose sense of time during the coronavirus pandemic. Jewish tradition has an antidote for that.

Rabbi Benjamin Resnick by Rabbi Benjamin Resnick March 25, 2020March 25, 2020
Posted inFood, Small Bites, Columns, Jewish Life, Organic Epicure

Don’t want to cook that seder yourself? Here are options for delivery or takeout seder meals in the Bay Area.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 24, 2020March 30, 2020
Posted inColumns, Kids & Family, Religion, Jewish Life, Parenting

Trading a frazzled Shabbat for one that makes me grateful

by Julie Levine March 24, 2020
Covers of "A Bookshop in Berlin" by Francoise Frenkel and "Odyssey of an Apple Thief" by Moishe Rozenbaumas
Posted inBooks, Columns, Culture, Off the Shelf

Newly translated from French, these two Holocaust memoirs are a treasure

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman March 20, 2020March 20, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the media in Kfar Maccabiah, Ramat Gan on February 21, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Tomer Neuberg-Flash90
Posted inThe Tell, Israel, Columns, U.S., Analysis, News

In Israel, the pandemic becomes an instrument of preserving power

by Ron Kampeas and JTA March 20, 2020
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inColumns, Religion, Jewish Life, Torah

Two little biblical letters that ‘mean nothing but express everything’

by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan March 20, 2020March 19, 2020
Posted inFood, Columns, Passover, Holidays, Jewish Life, Organic Epicure

At Market Hall, they cry over the horseradish so you don’t have to

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 18, 2020March 30, 2020
Posted inFood, Bay Area, Uncategorized, Columns, Northern California, Jewish Life, Organic Epicure, News

Jewish-owned food businesses hit hard by coronavirus restrictions

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 17, 2020March 30, 2020
Posted inBooks, Columns, Culture, Film, Celebrity Jews, Music, TV, TV & Film

Nimoy’s greeting goes to Capitol Hill; Haim goes to the deli; Goldberg goes to Saudi Arabia

by Maya Mirsky March 17, 2020March 19, 2020
Posted inBay Area, Columns, Religion, Jew in the Pew, Jewish Life, News

Shabbat, prayer and religious connection during a pandemic

by David A.M. Wilensky March 17, 2020March 17, 2020

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