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Carol Silver Elliott

Sep 16, 2026, 12:21 AM

We are beginning another year, 5787 on the Jewish calendar. These Days of Awe are a time for us to reflect on the year that is ending and think about the year that is to come. While making resolutions...

Sep 14, 2026, 6:34 PM

Does charity lessen the degree of the decree?

Before Rosh Hashana, and especially during the 10 days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, Jews who need to raise money for whatever important cause love to squeeze out as much as they can from the prayer that we...

Andy Blumenthal

Sep 14, 2026, 6:45 AM

The Laps We Keep Walking

On Rosh Hashanah, we come to synagogue carrying more than a prayer book. We carry the year that was: the disappointments we did not expect, the fears we did not voice, the losses we still cannot quite name, and the...

Michael A. Jacobs

Sep 12, 2026, 12:32 AM

Don’t Dismantle. Build.

What the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish community has built and why more communities should follow By Michael A. Jacobs In recent years, Jewish students in California public schools have faced well-documented antisemitism. A Berkeley ninth-grader’s art teacher displayed a Star of...

Sep 11, 2026, 2:52 PM

This Rosh Hashanah, Jewish Unity Is Our Answer

Photo Credits; Sabine Sterk ( AI)

As the sun sets and the Jewish people welcome Rosh Hashanah 5787, we are not simply beginning another year. We are making a statement. We are still here. After thousands of years of exile, persecution, expulsions, pogroms and the Holocaust, the Jewish...

Sep 8, 2026, 8:24 PM

Story: The boy sits down and cries at the Kotel. G-d is about to send help

This is an incredible story Rabbi Aharon HaLevy tells from when he was a child. There is a boy named Yoni. From a young age, everyone believes Yoni would not turn out to be anything special. He is not known to be...

Sep 8, 2026, 6:35 AM

What the New Year Asks of Our Relationships

As Labor Day comes to a close, a new academic year is in the air. The crisp fall weather and approaching Jewish holidays bring with them a familiar sense of renewal. This season invites us to begin again by...

Sep 7, 2026, 7:10 PM

The Jewish state would like to buy a vowel

I love Petah Tikva sign on October 6, 2022 (Dr. Avishai Teicher/ WikiCommons)

Israel cannot agree on its borders, its future or what happened yesterday. But for NIS 250,000, we may finally learn how to spell Petah Tikva

Whimsy Anderson

Sep 6, 2026, 7:10 AM

You Do Not Speak for Israel

Cartoon by Grok

There is a growing foreign political right that has begun to talk as if it owns the State of Israel. As if they have adopted a lost orphan and are taking it home to raise as one of their...

Robert Lichtman

Sep 3, 2026, 10:31 PM

The Communities Michael Brooks Taught Us to Build

Heads are bowed, words are hushed – and for those who knew him well - knowing smiles can still be smiled, as we absorb the news that Michael Brooks has died. I knew Michael as the legendary leader of...

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