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Sarab Abu-Rabia Queder seated on the floor of a tent during a Ben-Gurion University faculty tour of Bedouin society in the Negev.
(Photo/Courtesy BGU-Dani Machlis)

Meet a trailblazing Israeli Bedouin academic when she visits San Francisco and Los Gatos

by Leslie Katz August 21, 2023August 22, 2023

"The paper will have your handprints on it," student Lucas Leeds says of drawing with charcoal. "You really become part of the drawing itself." (Photo/Leslie Katz)

Honoring the Survivors

With paper and charcoal, local students learn empathy for Holocaust survivors

by Leslie Katz August 4, 2023August 7, 2023

Nancy Zimmerman Pechner (center), her mom Alice (left) and sister Beverly at a Zim's restaurant in 1969. Pechner's father Art Zimmerman founded the popular S.F. burger chain. (Photo/Courtesy)

Books

Behind Zim’s hamburgers was a family in turmoil

by Leslie Katz July 31, 2023July 31, 2023

Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck's "I Like it Here" is screening as part of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

‘I Like It Here’: In S.F. Jewish Film Fest gem, an aging filmmaker reflects on mortality

by Leslie Katz July 11, 2023August 4, 2023

Kit Vincent's father, Lawrence, at synagogue. Their story is told in the film "Red Herring," screening as part of the 2023 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. (Photo/Courtesy Kit Vincent)

In ‘Red Herring,’ a son’s terminal diagnosis leads to a father’s new life as a Jew

by Leslie Katz July 10, 2023July 10, 2023

A photograph by Roman Vishniac, subject of the new documentary "Vishniac," which is screening as part of the 2023 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

‘Vishniac’: At S.F. Jewish Film Fest, unflinching documentary shines light on famed photographer

by Leslie Katz July 6, 2023July 21, 2023

Gene Wilder (left) and Harrison Ford as a Polish rabbi and an American bank robber in "The Frisco Kid," in which the odd couple travels west to San Francisco together.

‘Remembering Gene Wilder’ at S.F. Jewish Film Festival — and how he made my dad laugh

by Leslie Katz July 5, 2023July 5, 2023

Two pictures. On the left, a color photo of an ornate silver cup. On the right, a vintage photo of a woman smiling outside, sitting on a bench.

Nazi-looted silver cup comes home to Bay Area descendant after 80 years

by Leslie Katz April 17, 2023April 18, 2023

Former IDF soldier seeks to diffuse the hatred

by Leslie Katz November 14, 2008December 29, 2016

Becoming warriors of peace amid thoughts of revenge

by Leslie Katz September 28, 2001December 28, 2016