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Here’s Passover and Easter! What’s a family to do?

Here’s Passover! And Easter! For people who are doing both there is a thankful bit of time between First Seder on Friday night and Easter Sunday. If you are doing both I would love to hear from you HOW you are doing them? Some people will be at a big family Seder on Friday and…

Passover Seders Around the San Francisco Bay Area

The J-Weekly has an exhaustive list of Seders in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are still without a Seder dash over and look through their list. The most common practice for Jewish families is to spend the first night of Seder at a home gathering with family and friends. Some synagogues won’t even…

Where and with whom will you have Seder?

Here it comes, the most celebrated Jewish holiday of all, Passover! Where and with whom will you have Seder? A few years ago a Jewish woman participating in a Passover cooking workshop said, “I have a question. We have lived in the bay area for a few years but no one invites us for Seder….

Basic Judaism – always a good idea

I advocate that every interfaith couple take a class on Judaism together. To the Jewish partner I say, You need to hear what’s being taught. You won’t know it all and you probably haven’t thought about many of these subjects as an adult. I particularly love the Introduction to the Jewish Experience class because it has…

Our Diverse Jewish Families

Last week we had a powerful discussion about parenting in a multiracial Jewish family. I was struck by a young Black Jew who said he wants his white parents to talk with him about racism. We heard about slips of the tongue, misguided statements, things that we, the white majority can learn to do better….

This is Bay Area Jewry – Panel & Celebration

Exhibit Closing Celebration Our beautiful photo exhibit, This Is Bay Area Jewry, is hanging in the social hall of Beth El in Berkeley. We are planning a closing celebration for the exhibit. Please join us for a reception with refreshments at 2pm. There will be a brief tour of the exhibit at 2:15 pm. At…

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