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Lezak Shallat

Lezak Shallat

Lezak Shallat grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and works with words.

Brenda Kassiola (left) and her mom, Amy Kassiola.
Posted inCulture

Artistic mother and daughter pass pandemic days creating mini-murals

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat February 17, 2022February 18, 2022

At the start of the pandemic lockdown in March 2020, Amy and Brenda Kassiola were looking for activities to keep themselves occupied at home in San Francisco. Amy, an artist […]

Disability rights activists Denise Sherer Jacobson and Neil Jacobson, subjects of "Crip Camp," in their early 20s. (Photo/Courtesy Netflix)
Posted inCulture, Film, TV & Film

‘Crip Camp’: disability rights activists and their summer of love

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat April 23, 2020April 27, 2020
Detail from “Do not forgive them, oh Lord, for they do know what they do! (after Luke 23:34)” by Arthur Szyk, part of the Magnes Collection. (Courtesy Magnes)
Posted inCulture

New Magnes exhibit: ‘Soldier in art’ Arthur Szyk blasted tyranny in stunning works of graphic art

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat March 3, 2020March 3, 2020
Al Hirshen (Photo/Lezak Shallat)
Posted inCulture

‘Ordinary’ North Bay man writes his ‘extraordinary’ story

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat October 22, 2019
(From left) Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory and Erika Andiola in the documentary “This is Personal”
Posted inFilm

S.F. Jewish Film Fest delves into intersectionality and the Women’s March

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat July 23, 2019July 24, 2019
Sophie Weinzimmer (third from left) with her family in a Displaced Persons camp for Holocaust survivors in Steyr, Austria, March 1949
Posted inNews

Saratoga woman visits Austrian DP camp where she was born

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat July 9, 2019July 10, 2019
Melaveh Project doula Patti Goldstein (right) with her mother Phyllis Goldstein
Posted inSeniors

New approach to dying: Melaveh Project’s ‘end-of-life doulas’

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat March 25, 2019March 22, 2019
Ilya Varga (left) with Maddy Winard and Olivia Rokhsar making babka in the Urban Adamah kitchen. (Photo/Lezak Shallat)
Posted inEducation

Bay Area teens go elbow-deep in Jewish cooking (and values)

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat March 1, 2019March 1, 2019
a small building with a star of david on top, black and white photo
Posted inNews

Richmond history museum tells the story of local Jews

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat January 11, 2019January 16, 2019
Poppy Finston, 93
Posted inNews

Project at Marin shul gets seniors to tell their stories

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat December 14, 2018

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