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From “Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation” by Liana Finck
Posted inComics

Cartoonist Liana Finck on rewriting Genesis, God as a woman and why Abraham feels like a Philip Roth character

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward April 11, 2022
"Black Flowers" introduces audiences to five Israeli artists who were children during the Holocaust. (Photo/Courtesy Tammy Federman)
Posted inCulture

Sonoma Israeli Film Festival spotlights healing power of art

by Michael Fox April 8, 2022April 8, 2022
Sophia Zohar AKA Maimonides Nutz wearing some of her own line of apparel. (Photo/Ryan Boyd)
Posted inFashion

Artist ‘Maimonides Nutz’ spins Talmud into social media gold

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 7, 2022April 12, 2022
Roman Vishniac holding the cover image of his book, "A Vanished World," New York, 1982. (Photo/The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Magnes receives $1 million gift for Vishniac archive project

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 23, 2022March 23, 2022
Rebecca Schuchat is the artist behind our new comic strip, "Where's My Timbrel?"
Posted inCulture

‘Where’s My Timbrel?’ Our new comic strip draws on artist’s Bay Area Jewish life

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 10, 2022March 10, 2022
Screenshot from the film "Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power."
Posted inCulture

Berkeley Jewish filmmaker wins NAACP award; day school students win Hazon arts awards

by J. Staff March 8, 2022
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
Jeweler Andrew Litwin and one of his creations, which reads "lev," or heart, in Hebrew.
Posted inCulture

A jeweler’s winding path back to Judaism, and the family business

by Liz Harris February 10, 2022February 10, 2022
"Please Rate Your Experience" by Lisa Kokin, 2021, part of CJM's "Tikkun" exhibit
Posted inCulture

The healing arts: CJM’s ‘Tikkun’ exhibit contemplates our fractured world

Laura Pall by Laura Paull February 4, 2022January 3, 2023
Covers of "The House of Fragile Things" by James McAuley and "The Vanished Collection" by Pauline Baer de Perignon
Posted inBooks

New books: Two portraits of French Jewish art collectors and their wartime travails

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 14, 2022

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