The Torah is unchanging, even as we grow and change. Each time we return to the Torah, it can yield something new.

The rabbinate doesn’t have one look, and Reform Rabbi Arielle Stein’s version is chic, creative and fashion-forward. Stein, ...

Zvika Krieger stays busy, juggling his dual roles as an ethics adviser to AI giants in Silicon Valley and serving as a ...

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A new production reimagines the classic tale of the golem through large-scale puppetry, live klezmer and unapologetic ...

Marc Usatin, a career neonatologist/pediatrician and founding president of Congregation B’nai Tikvah in Walnut Creek, died on July 4, 2026 at his home in Davis, surrounded by his devoted family. Marc ...

As Germany considers an unprecedented law that would criminalize denying Israel’s right to exist, American free speech ...

Turn up the taste on a fresh, summery watermelon salad by lightly pickling the ingredients in vinegar, lime, honey and sumac.

A former S.F. man was arrested in Israel and extradited back to the U.S. to face charges in a 2017 fatal hit and run in South ...

Alexandra Harriet Winterman Diehl Daughter of Danya Winterman, Saturday, July 25, at Temple Sinai in Oakland.

As a new documentary about Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach’s legacy debuts, J. looks back at how our publication covered him over the ...

COMINGS & GOINGS Micah Parzen. Micah Parzen has been named the new executive director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Parzen previously served as CE ...