Participants in a well-respected Jewish learning and leadership program are grappling with revelations about the man behind ...

Miriam’s death in this week’s double parashah is a chance to reflect on her remarkable life and her role in Jewish history.

A 2023 vintage from Covenant Wines in Berkeley just earned the first ever perfect 100-point rating for a kosher wine.

This post is sponsored by the Jewish Federation Bay Area. For more than a century, the Jewish Federation Bay Area has been ...

As a certified denizen of the Swamp — I served in the Clinton White House’s communications shop and later founded a ...

Here's what our readers are talking about in this week's letters to the editor of J. The Jewish News of Northern California.

An ulpan, “Israel’s mainstay of intensive Hebrew instruction,” first arrived at the University of San Francisco in 1998, ...

At the height of the AIDS crisis, Reform rabbis were insisting that gay Jews deserved compassion, not judgment.

Taboos against discussing menstruation, as well as the cost of sanitary supplies, remain issues here and abroad.

I’m living through a series of personal plagues. They’re not biblical in proportion, but for mere mortal me, they’re epic and ...

Every Sunday, all summer long, five Bay Area synagogues and a Jewish day school compete in BATS, the Bay Area Torah Softball ...

The gardening specialist at the Oshman Family JCC preschool is set to retire after 40 years. She planted Jewish values along ...