Batshir Torchio is a rabbi and the new Senior Educator at the JCCSF.
Food March 31, 2014
After examining the deeper symbolism of its uniquely dry, scratchy, deflated stature at the Passover seder, one of the challenges of this holiday week involves how to creatively transform matzoh into something edible and tasty. When it comes to matzoh, mine is a love-hate relationship. It's a... Read more
Jewishing January 17, 2014
J.R. was standing at the bottom of the staircase in the Atrium looking up at a small poster about the Raoul Wallenberg exhibit when I first spotted him. I was walking out of the Community Table Café with an apple and cheese stick in hand, deliberately slowly... Read more
Jewishing December 24, 2013
The main entrance of the Chinese Immersion School at De Avila in San Francisco reminds me of the public elementary school I attended in New York. Six or seven granite steps fan out in a semi-circle beneath a pair of thick, castle-heavy oak doors. The tarnished brass doorknobs... Read more