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Al Rosen's seder this year will include the whacking of his homemade Pharaoh piñata. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inPassover

Why this S.F. man’s seder features a Pharaoh piñata

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 16, 2019April 16, 2019
Luigi Toscano's traveling exhibit, seen here in Ukraine, displays portraits of Holocaust survivors who live in the place where the exhibit is on display.
Posted inCulture

Globe-trotting exhibit shows portraits of local survivors at S.F. Civic Center

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 10, 2019
One of Lily Gottlieb's photos from the “Porter Creek: A Portrait of Home” exhibit shows new growth after the fires around Camp Newman's iconic Star of David.
Posted inArt, Culture, Photography

From Camp Newman’s ashes, photos of devastation and hope

by Liz Harris April 4, 2019April 5, 2019
Rabbi Me’irah Iliinsky with her painting “The Tree of Life Is Weeping”
Posted inArt

Gift for Pittsburgh: S.F. rabbi’s ‘Weeping’ painting

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 25, 2019
Ketubahs by Anna Abramzon for couples that lost theirs in recent Northern California wildfires
Posted inCulture

North Bay artist makes new ketubahs for survivors of natural disasters

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 13, 2019April 3, 2019
One part of “Obsessive,” a two-piece artwork by Edith Kallman lost in the fire.
Posted inBay Area

After fires consume graffiti art, daughter finds way to honor mom

by Rob Gloster February 21, 2019
Torah ark key inscribed in Hebrew "gift to the great synagogue," Northern Italy, 1724-1725
Posted inCulture

With ‘Memory Objects,’ immigrants carried their own history

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller February 20, 2019February 22, 2019
Samanta Tello with her piece "Silenced Voices of Everyday Sheroes"
Posted inArt

Spanish artist Samanta Tello left her ‘heart’ in San Francisco

Laura Pall by Laura Paull February 8, 2019February 8, 2019
Artist and arts educator Lola Fraknoi
Posted inSeniors

Lola Fraknoi retrospective shows a life devoted to art and elders

Laura Pall by Laura Paull February 6, 2019
Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob), "Self-portrait,"  c.1925. (Courtesy collection of Leslie Tonkonow and Klaus Ottman)
Posted inUncategorized

The many selves of gender-bending artist and Nazi resister Claude Cahun

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller February 1, 2019February 6, 2019

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