Not surprisingly, the Gold Rush led to the founding of the oldest congregations in the Golden State. That includes Temple ...

The story is from Numbers 6:1-21, where God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites that if any man or woman utters a Nazirite ...

Lior Gross, one of the founders of the Nonbinary Hebrew Project, will speak at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in San Francisco on ...

A Palestinian citizen of Israel who leads an environmental center in Israel was in the Bay Area talking about coexistence in ...

All manner of Russian food can be found at specialty stores in S.F., where a recent “Post-Soviet Food Tour” traveled down a ...

The Torah column is supported by a generous donation from Eve Gordon-Ramek in memory of Kenneth Gordon. NasoNumbers 4:21-7:89 Torah portion Naso, meaning both “lift up” and “take a census,” begins ...

B.V. Glants has won this year’s Anne and Robert Cowan Writer’s Prize for “Half Notes From Berlin,” a novel set in WWII-era ...

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national, allegedly planned the arson attack, which injured 12, for more than a year ...

Netanyahu has faced crises over the haredi draft in the past and usually overcome them, though the issue has also stymied ...

"To be part of that ongoing history of something that goes back to the very beginning of California, that was always an ...

Over 200 academics and political leaders met at Stanford for “Climate Resilience and Local Governmental Policy: Lessons from ...

( JTA) — A French parliamentary committee unanimously approved a bill this week to posthumously promote Alfred Dreyfus, more ...