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Fig & Vine Senior Profile: Shani Levy-Richards
This year, many members of the Jewish community were able to contribute and write some phenomenal articles. One such member is Shani Levy-Richards, who has just graduated this year...
Jun 30, 20253 min read


May's Favorite Recipes!
Summertime is almost here! The weather is great (finally!), the birds are chirping, and yet, you are still eating your disgusting plain instant ramen...
May 31, 20252 min read


Marked by Hope: A Critical Review of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
It has become common knowledge that Jews were forcibly tattooed when they had to enter concentration camps during the Holocaust, but there is very little known about the tattooists themselves....
May 31, 20255 min read


Who is behind Fig and Vine?
Get to know creator and editor Lily Karofsky! Throughout the course of the ‘24-’25 school year, Jewish students have had the privilege of...
May 31, 20254 min read


Voting Closes Soon!
Rise and shine, Jewish Gauchos! It’s Senate Season here in Sunny Santa Barbara, and our candidates couldn’t be more excited...
May 31, 20254 min read


Special Sweet Treat....
Easy Chocolate Chip Mandel Bread Recipe...
May 31, 20251 min read


Lag B’Omer
I was thinking about three things while writing this poem...
May 31, 20252 min read


Q & A With Rabbi Rick Jacobs
Rabbi Jacobs is a Reform rabbi and the president of the Union for Reform Judaism. He spent 20 years as the rabbi of Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, NY. Rabbi Jacobs is married to Susan K. Freedman and has three adult children....
May 31, 20256 min read


May 30, 20250 min read


Living Memorial
Written on 3/17/2024 as a reflection on witnessing sites of the Shoah in Poland.
Apr 30, 20252 min read


Spring in Israel
The infamous walk through Ben Gurion Airport down the sloped walkway towards border control has always brought tears to my eyes. I made that walk last June 2024 and this March 2025, yet they felt different....
Apr 30, 20252 min read


Let My People Go: The Legacy of Passover and its Ties to Freedom Movements
As many readers will probably know due to its yearly recounting of the at the Passover table, Passover (פסח) commemorates the biblical story of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt...
Apr 30, 20255 min read
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