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The many bagels of Boichik Bagels. (Photo/Lydia Daniller)
Posted inFrom the Archives

From ‘beigels’ in 1921 to bagels in 2023, we love ’em

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 16, 2023
A full dining room at One Market, now celebrating 30 years. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inOrganic Epicure

One Market anchors ‘foot’ of downtown S.F. for 30 years 

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 14, 2023
The Alco truck that drove to Petaluma with a load of soap in 1912, the first transcontinental delivery made by automobile. (Photo/Courtesy Sonoma County Library)
Posted inFrom the Archives

110 years ago, ‘motor wagon’ delivery was all the rage

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 13, 2023
Moses and Jethro in the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments"
Posted inTorah

Here’s to the non-Jews in the Torah! (There are more than you might think)

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein February 10, 2023February 10, 2023
Janet Silver Ghent's very own Mr. Fix-It
Posted inAct Two

Home repair project? I never nix it now that I’ve got Mr. Fix-It

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent February 9, 2023
a photo of a pair of calloused, dirty hands
Posted inColumns

Workaholics of the world, unite!

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz February 6, 2023
a 19th century painting of the scene
Posted inTorah

The monumental things that happen in the in-between

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf February 3, 2023February 2, 2023
Part of a kidney dialysis machine in operation. (Photo/U.S. National Archives and Defense Visual Information Distribution Service)
Posted inSeniors

How to slow the progression of chronic kidney disease

by Dr. Jerry Saliman February 1, 2023
Dana Koschitzky's babka. (Photo/Dafna Adler)
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Israeli baker’s babkas are selling like hotcakes in Napa

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 31, 2023February 1, 2023
From the cover of “Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland's Jewish Revival” by Geneviève Zubrzycki
Posted inBooks

New book explores ‘magical philosemitism’ in modern-day Poland

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 30, 2023January 31, 2023

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