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      Brenda Kassiola (left) and her mom, Amy Kassiola.

      Art

      Artistic mother and daughter pass pandemic days creating mini-murals

      At the start of the pandemic lockdown in March 2020, Amy and Brenda Kassiola were looking for activities to keep themselves occupied at home in San…
      By Lezak Shallat Feb 17, 2022
      Jeweler Andrew Litwin and one of his creations, which reads "lev," or heart, in Hebrew.

      Profile

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

      Though he grew up in an Orthodox home, after decades of living a secular life, Andrew Litwin revisited Judaism and dove into it. The 63-year-old San…
      By Liz Harris Feb 10, 2022
      "Please Rate Your Experience" by Lisa Kokin, 2021, part of CJM's "Tikkun" exhibit

      Art

      CJM's 'Tikkun' exhibit contemplates our fractured world

      Judaism is not the only religion that subscribes to the doctrine of “do unto others.” Artist Beth Grossman was perplexed to discover that at least 21 of…
      By Laura Paull Feb 4, 2022
      Covers of "The House of Fragile Things" by James McAuley and "The Vanished Collection" by Pauline Baer de Perignon

      Off the Shelf

      New books: French Jewish art collectors and their wartime travails

      Although few of us can relate to the rarefied worlds of wealthy Jewish art collectors during the French Third Republic, two recent books reinforce some…
      By Howard Freedman Jan 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)

      History

      From reverent to raunchy, vast Yiddish archives are reunited online

      The Holocaust all but destroyed a centuries-old Jewish civilization, while the war carved up nations and left the Continent divided between the allied…
      By Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA Jan 11, 2022
      UC Hastings Jewish faculty and students commissioned San Francisco artist Abrasha to make a mezuzah for the second family. 

      Art

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

      When a friend of UC Hastings law professor Marsha Cohen read a media report last month that Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff…
      By John Ferrannini Dec 15, 2021
      Ava Sayaka Rosen's tarot cards on display at the LABAlive event, Nov. 7, 2021.

      Religion

      Oakland artist Ava Sakaya Rosen creates Torah-inspired tarot deck

      A forest fire, racing up a mountain. A tortoise, deep inside the earth. A dark sea, rough on the surface and still beneath it. These images, carved on…
      By Maya Mirsky Dec 3, 2021
      a middle aged woman directs to younger dancers

      Bay Area

      Black-Jewish group embraces S.F. guaranteed income program

      Marika Brussel has been receiving $1,000 each month since May, no strings attached, from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The 52-year-old ballet…
      By Andrew Esensten Nov 18, 2021
      Detail from “Yiddish Cosmos,” 2018, prints on paper by Yevgeniy Fiks

      History

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

      In the dark days of the Cold War, photographer Bill Aron, the son of a Russian émigré to Philadelphia, traveled to the Soviet Union. In Moscow, Leningrad,…
      By Tom Teicholz, Forward Nov 16, 2021
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