Archives for October 2005

The most difficult part of moving, one religious seeker discovered, is finding a new spiritual home, a congregation to call one’s own. Over a year

Rosh Hashana season at Marshall’s Farm Honey finds customers buzzing about their stand at the San Francisco Ferry Building Farmer’s Market. They are attracted to

Closely observe any Jewish congregation in the world and, sooner or later, you’ll notice all the shades of Jewish literacy. Whether the synagogue is Orthodox,

“Kvell,” says Leo Rosten’s The Joys of Yiddish, is “to beam with immense pride and pleasure, most commonly over an achievement of a child or grandchild.”

The mystique of an ancient text filled with historic discourses and debates has called to Jews throughout the ages. My father never stopped studying Talmud.

The pioneering spirit that brought Americans West likewise drew Jews to this riverfront city. They prospered in business and politics—and developed a new movement of

  In July, the highly organized, energetic and affable Ze’ev Bielski, 55, became chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel. He says his life until

How do you measure a country’s effect on your life? One way is to try on the place—and the life—you left behind. When I moved