Two newly ordained Renewal rabbis from Oakland are bolstering the movement’s 50-year-old legacy in the East Bay.

Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the international director of the Sephardic Educational Center.

A society is only as stable and moral as its commitment to protecting its most vulnerable members. Therefore, the laws in Mishpatim repeatedly return to the treatment of slaves.

But after attending a service at B’nai Jeshurun, she cried “because my soul had been awakened in this space. I said to David ...