by leigh cuen | On Saturday Oct. 15 Idan Raichel and India Arie came to Oakland as part of the annual SF Jazz festival. They performed songs from their collaborative album “Open Door,” to be released in the spring of 2012.   Arie twisted and swiveled around the stage in a flouncy dress. Read More »

“Are Mormons Christians?”
This question is, unfortunately, not unfamiliar to most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Read More »

The five petals of the forget-me-not flower represent five important messages from G-d to remember. (Photo by dawnzy58 on Flickr )
Shana tovah u’metukah!
I love autumn. Read More »

Matisyahu just racked up major brownie points in my book by releasing “Elijah’s Song” in memory of a young boy who he met that was suffering from cancer.
 Matisyahu said: “I wrote and recorded this song with my friend Elijah just hours before he passed away last December. Read More »

Monday August 1 Israeli singer Ravid Kahalani and his nine-member blues band, Yemen Blues, rocked the Independent in San Francisco. Kahalani sings in both his native Hebrew and his family’s Yemeni dialect of Arabic, fusing jazz, Middle Eastern melodies, and funky blues into one modern brew.
 
 
 
Yemen Blues are no strangers to the Bay Area . Read More »

by admin |   Ilana DeBare is former San Francisco Chronicle writer and current j. board member. She writes a blog titled “Midlife Bat Mitzvah. Read More »

A while back, Overheard Newsroom tweeted this gem: “You can start a story with a quote twice in your career. Once when you’re an intern, and again if the pope ever says f—. Read More »

“No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” – Article IV, U.S. Read More »

Off The Grid , a popular food truck meet-up already in place in many SF locations, launched a North Berkeley version last week to much success  — we heard it was mad crowded. This sixth location of Off the Grid will feature eight to 10 mobile food trucks each week at the intersection of Shattuck and Rose in Berkeley’s “Gourmet Ghetto. Read More »

Elder Jay Bostwick, second from left, and other LDS missionaries visit with Elizabeth Musembi and her family in Kilungu, Kenya. The Musembis were pioneers among LDS members in Kenya.
The talk of the town on Broadway these days is The Book of Mormon: The Musical . Read More »

Saturday Night Live star Andy Samberg met his The Lonely Island cohorts Justin Taccone and Akiva Schaeffer (all three Jewish) during the trio’s junior high years in our beloved Berkeley. It’s safe to say they’ve done quite well for themselves. They score album guest stars like Justin Timberlake and Michael Bolton. They can rap convincingly. Read More »

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Matisyahu is revving up to embark on his summer tour.
He’ll play a slew of shows across the U.S. during these hot sticky months (elsewhere), finally hitting (cold, windy) San Francisco on Aug. 2 at the Regency Ballroom. Get your tickets now, they could go fast — he’s everyone’s favorite Hasidic-vegan reggae superstar. Read More »

This isn’t quite a man-bites-dog story: It’s more like a man-can-longer-bite-into-a-pastrami-sandwich story.
In a move that seems incongruous with everything a good Jewish deli stands for, Saul’s Restaurant and Deli has pulled the plug on serving pastrami. That’s right – no more pastrami on rye with hot mustard at Saul’s in Berkeley. Read More »

Some big Jewy music news this week! Chasidic rapper, Y-love’s “See Me” EP hits stores today, as does the second Girls in Trouble record “Half You Half Me”  (Jdub). Check out Y-love’s new video (and get the E.P.) here .You can pick up your copy of Girls in Trouble’s lush new record here (and trust me, you want to) here . Read More »

Latter-day Saints LOVE Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . Blame it on the show’s witty lyrics and catchy tunes, the blend of Broadway and Bible, or an affinity for all things Osmond, but Joseph has got to be one of the most frequently produced shows in the State of Utah (not to mention by LDS congregations nationwide). Read More »

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The Huffington Post reported this morning that Buckingham Palace guard Cameron Reilly has been relieved of his duties for the Royal Wedding™ this Friday because of racist and anti-Semitic comments he made on his Facebook page – oh, and also for calling future queen Kate Middleton a “posh [rhymes with witch]. Read More »

It is a truth universally acknowledged that no one ever runs out of matzah. It has a tendency to replicate itself until you find yourself on the last day of Passover, staring down at the three sheets of matzah left in your very first box, trying to do the math and figure out how, yet again, you ended up with way too much matzah. Read More »

Ilana DeBare is former San Francisco Chronicle writer and current j. board member.
She writes a blog titled “Midlife Bat Mitzvah.”
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In Conversation: Rabbi Andrea Berlin
One benefit of writing this blog is that it gives me an excuse to sit down and talk with our rabbis at much greater length than I normally would. Read More »

Elijah in Barcelona
‘Twas the night before Passover…
Okay, maybe not. But nerdy Jewish kids jealous that their Christian counterparts can track Santa’s GPS coordinates while visions of sugarplums dance in their heads now have their answer to the NORAD Santa Tracker : Elijah Tracker.
ElijahTracker. Read More »