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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
A program cover from a 1920s Yiddish Press Ball in Warsaw is shown before and after conservation treatment. It and thousands of other programs and posters can be seen as part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project. (Photo/Courtesy YIVO)
Posted inHistory

From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA January 11, 2022January 11, 2022
UC Hastings Jewish faculty and students commissioned San Francisco artist Abrasha to make a mezuzah for the second family. 
Posted inArt

UC Hastings to Kamala Harris: Where’s the mezuzah we sent you? 

by John Ferrannini December 15, 2021April 9, 2022
Ava Sayaka Rosen's tarot cards on display at the LABAlive event, Nov. 7, 2021.
Posted inReligion

Pick a card, or let it pick you: Oakland artist Ava Sakaya Rosen’s Torah-inspired tarot deck 

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 3, 2021December 3, 2021
a middle aged woman directs to younger dancers
Posted inBay Area

‘Cash improves lives’: In S.F., Black-Jewish group embraces guaranteed income programs

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten November 18, 2021November 19, 2021
Detail from “Yiddish Cosmos,” 2018, prints on paper by Yevgeniy Fiks
Posted inCulture

Little-known L.A. museum puts the saga of Soviet Jewry on display

by Tom Teicholz and Forward November 16, 2021
A panel from Bernard Zakheim's expansive WPA murals on medical history in UCSF's Toland Hall auditorium; Zakheim working on the mural in 1937. (Photos/UCSF Archives and Special Collections)
Posted inArt

Saved from destruction, UCSF’s Zakheim murals are moved to storage

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 15, 2021November 21, 2021
"Wheatstacks," a Van Gogh watercolor stolen by the Nazis, was sold at auction by Christie's in New York Thursday for $35.9 million. (Photo/Christie's)
Posted inCulture

Van Gogh painting stolen from Rothschild by Nazis sells for over $35 million, breaking record

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA November 15, 2021

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