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• Pulled Pork Kugel and other transgressive traditions from the ultimate treif banquet

  January 11, 2018 9:47am

  SAN FRANCISCO (J. the Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — “Az men est khazer, zol es shoyn rinen ibern moyl” goes an old Yiddish saying: “If you’re going to eat pork, eat it until your mouth drips.” Sunday night at Brick & Mortar Music Hall here, the mouths of rabbis and foodies dripped…

• Near San Francisco, Karaite Jews keep an ancient movement alive

  February 23, 2017 12:26pm

  DALY CITY, Calif. (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Show up on a Shabbat morning at Congregation B’nai Israel in this Northern California suburb and, if you’re a typical American Jew, you will see plenty that’s familiar. At the front of the sanctuary is an ark, and inside the ark are…

• I’m wearing a kippah now — for solidarity and visibility

  December 23, 2016 11:39am

  SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — I do not like wearing a kippah. I grew up in a Reform synagogue where few people wore them, including the rabbi. The gendered nature of it bothers me. (Why, in some “egalitarian” synagogues, are men forced to wear them but not women?) And, quite frankly, I don’t like being told…

• These 5 new Haggadahs are keepers

  March 29, 2015 3:13pm

  Every year, a sea of a new Haggadahs vies for our attention, money and a seat at our seder table. JTA sorts through this year’s crop.

• Haggadah collection includes pop-up books, world’s tiniest seder guide

  March 29, 2015 2:46pm

  The University of Michigan was recently given a massive and eclectic collection of Passover Haggadahs.

• For Reform, new gay-friendly High Holidays prayer book keeps up inclusivity trend

  March 22, 2015 4:21pm

  The movement’s first machzor since 1978 is intended as a companion to the popular prayerbook Mishkan T’filah, which was published in 2007.

• Reform rabbinic group installs its first openly gay president

  March 17, 2015 2:09pm

  In a barrier-breaking transition, Denise Eger ascends to the top post of the 2,000-member Central Conference of American Rabbis.

• Op-Ed: Title VI should be used only on true hatemongers, not political opponents

  April 18, 2012 4:48pm

  The Zionist Organization of America is using Title VI as a political tactic that targets valid, albeit distasteful and wrongheaded, political debate, when the measure should be used to protect Jewish students from true hatemongers, writes the editor of New Voices magazine.

• New Haggadahs: Reform version, novelists’ take and Ethiopian flavor

  March 28, 2012 7:08pm

  Entries in the annual stream of new Haggadahs this year include a Reform version with an iPad application, a gorgeously designed Haggadah featuring literary celebrity contributors such as Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander, and one with an Ethiopian flavor.

• Roundup of new prayer books

  September 22, 2011 2:07am

  New High Holidays prayer books, or machzors, weren’t the only developments in Jewish liturgy over the last year. Here is a roundup of other new prayer books and related projects in that time.