Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. (JTA) — The 48 hostages held for two years in Gaza, including 20 who are ...

The Jerusalem Coffee House in Oakland in October 2024. (Maya Mirsky/J. Staff) Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. An Oakland coffee shop at the center ...

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I was leading services as a rabbi at my synagogue in Borehamwood, in the London suburbs. Soon after 10 a.m. someone brought a message from our amazing security guard Vince: There had been an attack in ...

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Rabbi Miriam Lorie is the rabbi at Kehillat Nashira in Borehamwood, England. She was ordained by Yeshivat Maharat in 2024 and is the first Orthodox woman to lead a congregation in England.

This year, as the holiday overlaps with the two-year commemoration of the October 7 attacks, may we enter the sukkah holding space for both joy and grief, honoring the victims and their families while ...

Elchanan Danino, whose son was murdered in captivity in Gaza, leads the Mourner's Kaddish at the civilian Oct. 7 memorial ceremony at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv, Oct. 7, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90 ...