Menorah business burning bright on Etsy for these Bay Area crafters By Emma Goss Dec 6, 2022 Sarit Khen of Sunnyvale never dreamed that her hobby of fusing brightly colored pieces of glass into wind chimes, serving plates and other pieces of art would turn into a full-time business. But that’s exactly what happened after the pieces she was crafting in her garage-turned–art studio — including an array of menorahs — began… Read More
Art At CJM, a dense (and very pink) tapestry of joy and pain This essay is the third and final installment of a collaboration between J. and the Contemporary Jewish Museum to interpret artworks through a Jewish… By Merissa Nathan Gerson Dec 5, 2022
Art Magnes Collection appoints Hannah Weisman as executive director The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life has hired an executive director to lead the 60-year-old museum for the first time since it became part of UC… By Andrew Esensten Nov 21, 2022
First Person Palestinian flags at the CJM? Try ‘listening’ to what the artist is saying. This essay appears as a part of a collaboration between J. and the Contemporary Jewish Museum to interpret artworks through a Jewish lens. The series… By Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan Nov 11, 2022
Art Does art with the Palestinian flag belong at a Jewish museum? Tucked in the far corner of a large, brightly-lit exhibition hall on the ground floor of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, there is a… By Andrew Esensten Nov 9, 2022
Art Jewish art 'laboratory' LABA gets a new home at the Firehouse in S.F. LABA East Bay, the Jewish culture “laboratory” that supports local artists through its annual fellowship program and hosts live showcases, is now LABA… By Andrew Esensten Nov 3, 2022
Art Woven artwork at CJM speaks to our broken world This essay appears as a part of a collaboration between J. and the Contemporary Jewish Museum to interpret artworks through a Jewish lens. The series… By Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell Oct 26, 2022
Art Artist Ori Sherman’s full ‘Creation’ series on view at Magnes One of the last works San Francisco artist Ori Sherman made while dying from AIDS was a series called “The Creation,” about the beginning of the world as… By Lauren Hakimi Oct 21, 2022
Art Meet the artist behind the new USPS Hanukkah stamp Despite the fact that one-third of Americans haven’t mailed a handwritten, personal letter in over five years, the tradition of the holiday card is not… By Mira Fox, Forward Oct 11, 2022