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(Photo illustration/Hey Alma-Avital Dayanim)
Posted inJewish Life

The weirdest Hanukkah gifts of 2022

by Evelyn Frick and Hey Alma December 9, 2022December 9, 2022
Sarit Khen's glass Golden Gate Bridge menorah
Posted inReligion

Business burning bright for these Bay Area menorah makers

by Emma Goss December 6, 2022December 7, 2022
Detail from "You Don’t Get to Know" by Terri Friedman, 2021. (Photo/Courtesy Friedman)
Posted inUncategorized

At CJM, a dense (and very pink) tapestry of joy and pain

by Merissa Nathan Gerson December 5, 2022January 3, 2023
Hannah Weisman is the new executive director of the Magnes Collection. (Photo/Ryuji Suzuki)
Posted inArt

Magnes Collection appoints Hannah Weisman as new executive director

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten November 21, 2022November 22, 2022
Tosha Stimage's "No on is listening to us" on display at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (Photo/Impart Photography-Courtesy Contemporary Jewish Museum)
Posted inCulture

Palestinian flags in a Jewish museum? Try ‘listening’ to what the artist is saying.

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan November 11, 2022January 3, 2023
"No one is listening to us" by Tosha Stimage. (Photo/Impart Photography-C
ourtesy The Contemporary Jewish Museum)
Posted inCulture

CJM visitors wonder: Does the Palestinian flag belong on the museum’s walls?

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten November 9, 2022November 11, 2023
Poet Jake Marmer (right) recites his poetry at LABA's DRUNK event at the JCC East Bay in Berkeley, Nov. 23, 2019, accompanied by guitarist John Schott. (Photo/Pete Rosos)
Posted inCulture

Jewish culture laboratory LABA gets a new home at the Firehouse in S.F.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten November 3, 2022June 25, 2024
"Para Humber" by Miguel Arzabe is currently on display at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
Posted inCulture

Woven artwork at CJM speaks to our broken world

Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell by Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell October 26, 2022January 3, 2023
Part of "The Creation" by Ori Sherman, 1986-88
(Photo/The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life)
Posted inArt

Artist Ori Sherman’s full ‘Creation’ series on view at Magnes

Lauren Hakimi by Lauren Hakimi October 21, 2022October 26, 2022
an enlarged view of the stamp: a colorful stained-glass-style illustration of a lit Hanukkah menorah
Posted inU.S.

Meet the artist behind the new USPS Hanukkah stamp

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward October 11, 2022

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