2+ hour, 39+ min ago  (491+ words) Without water, a city cannot support life. Likewise, without Torah, the Jewish people would die of thirst....

3+ hour, 29+ min ago  (262+ words) Whether you call it Shavuoth, Shavuos, Shevuous, Shabuoth, the holiday has both agrarian and educational origins....

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (1060+ words) (JTA) " As part of a 250th anniversary celebration of the United States, President Donald Trump is calling on Americans to pray together in a nine-hour marathon on the National Mall Sunday featuring a host of Christian speakers "and one rabbi. But…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (425+ words) Rita Semel, interfaith relations pioneer, leader in Bay Area Jewish community institutions and social justice activist, has died at age 104....

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (581+ words) This week, we begin a new book of the Torah. In Hebrew, it's called Bamidbar, which literally means "In the desert." The book's English name is "Numbers," which comes from its first parashah, also called Bamidbar, which begins with the…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (801+ words) Rabbi Sydney Mintz will become rabbi emerita this summer after nearly 30 years as a groundbreaking leader at the prominent Reform temple....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (801+ words) Rabbi Sydney Mintz will become rabbi emerita this summer after nearly 30 years as a groundbreaking leader at the prominent Reform temple....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (24+ words) S. F. Jewish Week kicked off Saturday night as local chefs tempted diners with a taste of Jewish cuisine from across the Bay Area....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (24+ words) Even the Liberty Bell has a crack. That symbolic break reminds us that our freedoms, as Americans and as Jews, are hardly invulnerable....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1833+ words) (JTA) " Over the last two months, there have been more than a dozen attacks on Jewish institutions across Europe. Two of the highest-profile attacks were in London, where two people were stabbed last month, in the same Jewish neighborhood where…...