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Jerry Ross Barrish in his studio in "Plastic Man." (Screenshot)
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Bail bonds to artwork, trash to treasure: Sculptor Jerry Ross Barrish gets his due

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 17, 2025November 24, 2025
(©Richard Misrach; Courtesy Pace Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles)
Posted inPhotography

Luminous images of Bay show human imprint, social impact

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 14, 2025October 14, 2025
Screenshot from “A Letter to David," about hostage David Cunio.
Posted inCulture

How books, film and TV seek to make sense of Oct. 7

Chanan TigayMaya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Chanan Tigay and Maya Mirsky October 1, 2025October 1, 2025
The Dura Europos Synagogue wall paintings
Posted inArt

After years of war, world’s oldest synagogue paintings are revealed as intact in Damascus

by Grace Gilson September 22, 2025September 22, 2025
Nicole Freeling etches “Pesach” into her seder plate
Posted inArt

Judaica takes shape at San Francisco ceramics workshop

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi September 5, 2025September 5, 2025
painting of Polish refugee children
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Magnes exhibit traces the flow of water through centuries of Jewish life

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 3, 2025September 4, 2025
Attendees line up for opening night of the 2022 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival at the Castro Theater. (David A.M. Wilensky/J. Staff)
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Jewish cultural institutions reeling as Trump defunds arts and humanities

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev April 9, 2025April 13, 2025
Art Spiegelman in "Disaster is my Muse." (Courtesy of Zipatone)
Posted inFilm

New documentary tells how MAD magazine, family ghosts and censorship made Art Spiegelman an anti-fascist artist

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar February 20, 2025February 21, 2025
Ben Wood shows a reimagined Jewish graveyard where a family member was buried that was destroyed in World War II at his home in San Francisco, Feb. 14, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inArt

S.F. artist uses detailed, dreamlike animation to re-create family homes lost to Nazis

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 14, 2025February 14, 2025
Artist Beth Grossman's "Golden Rule," part of the exhibit "Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves," seen through the windows of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco (Kevin Fyer)
Posted inFirst Person

As a Jewish artist, the CJM closure is a personal loss

Beth Grossman by Beth Grossman December 9, 2024December 11, 2024

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