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Posted inThe Omer, Columns, Kids & Family, Religion, Jewish Life, Torah

What childbirth teaches us about counting the Omer

Rabbi Adina Allen by Rabbi Adina Allen April 20, 2018April 20, 2018
Posted inIsrael at 70, Kids & Family, Holidays, Yom HaAtzmaut, Jewish Life

This beautiful, messy country … my Israel

Johanna Meckel by Johanna Meckel April 19, 2018
Posted inIsrael at 70, First Person, Local Voice, History, Holidays, Yom HaAtzmaut, Opinion

An eyewitness to Yom Kippur War, Ethiopian aliyah, Soviet Jewry and more

by Rabbi Doug Kahn April 19, 2018
Posted in420, History, Holidays, Jewish Life

Meet the Waldos: the true story of the Marin stoners who coined ‘420’

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn April 19, 2018April 19, 2018
Posted inIsrael at 70, First Person, Local Voice, Holidays, Yom HaAtzmaut, Opinion

Israel drove me away from Judaism — the struggle to fix it led me back

Rena Oppenheimer by Rena Oppenheimer April 18, 2018April 18, 2018
Posted inIsrael at 70, History, Holidays, Yom HaAtzmaut

What we wrote about S.F.’s Israel celebration in 1948

by J. Staff April 18, 2018
Posted inYom HaZikaron, Israel at 70, First Person, Local Voice, Youth Voice, Holidays, Jewish Life, Opinion

Yom HaZikaron: ‘A time to mourn, and a time to dance’

Max Bamberger by Max Bamberger April 18, 2018April 17, 2018
Posted inIsrael at 70, First Person, Local Voice, Holidays, Yom HaAtzmaut, Jewish Life, Opinion

Take it from a foreign correspondent: Israelis are anything but ordinary.

Donna Rosenthal by Donna Rosenthal April 17, 2018April 19, 2018
Posted inIsrael at 70, First Person, Local Voice, History, Holidays, Yom HaAtzmaut, Opinion

I joined the Zionist revolution in Russia

john rothmann by John Rothmann April 17, 2018April 16, 2018
Peg Sandel in Jerusalem with her daughters, who are living and studying in Israel, February 2018.
Posted inIsrael at 70, First Person, Education, Local Voice, Holidays, Yom HaAtzmaut, Jewish Life, Opinion

Israel led me from born-again Christian to Jewish educator

Peg Sandel by Peg Sandel April 17, 2018April 17, 2018

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