Marco Sermoneta wraps up his four-year post as consul general to the Pacific Northwest. Several local Jewish leaders reflect on his tenure.

Until a few years ago, every book math teacher Dahlia Evans had read about Jews was Holocaust historical fiction. Searching for a change, she went to her rabbi, who recommended a romance called The ...

A Walnut Creek resident has translated the autobiographical novel of a renowned Yiddish writer raised amid hardship in a ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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