Comics 'Where's My Timbrel?' Our new comic strip draws on artist's Jewish life Comics are Rebecca Schuchat’s preferred mode of self-expression. Yet the Oakland-born cartoonist, whose new comic strip, “Where’s My… By Emma Goss Mar 10, 2022
Film NAACP Image Award for Abby Ginzberg's Barbara Lee documentary Berkeley filmmaker Abby Ginzberg won an NAACP Image Award on Feb. 26 for “Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power,” a documentary about the East Bay… By J. Staff Mar 8, 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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