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Oosh's online marketplace sells items such as mezuzot that are handcrafted by Israeli artists. (Courtesy Oosh)
Posted inJudaica

Berkeley native who made aliyah starts online store to elevate Israeli artists

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz December 2, 2024December 3, 2024
five men in WWII-era US Army combat uniforms work together to erect a flagpole atop a pile of rubble
Posted inPhotography

San Francisco getting a block named for famed Iwo Jima photographer Joe Rosenthal

Aaron Levy-Wolins by Aaron Levy-Wolins November 26, 2024December 12, 2024
Visitors looking at Janis Joplin’s clothing in the exhibition "Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution" at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in 2018
(File/Andria Lo)
Posted inArt

‘A punch in the gut’: Artists and fans worry about the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s future

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 21, 2024November 26, 2024
The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, March 7, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inCulture

Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco will close for a year, citing financial woes

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 13, 2024November 13, 2024
a woman playing violin and a man playing accordion on stage
Posted inMusic

Paintings and ‘Music of the Holocaust’ concert will mark Kristallnacht in East Bay

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 1, 2024November 1, 2024
and old woman holds up small artworks of a sun and a christmas tree
Posted inArt

For seniors at Campus for Jewish Living, art is solace, relief and ‘happy place’ 

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 29, 2024October 29, 2024
a woman in a tricorn hat sits at a table draped in an American flag writing with a quill
Posted inArt

Quill in hand, Bay Area Jewish artist scribes the Constitution to inspire voters

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 28, 2024October 30, 2024
black and white: a man in a suit stands next to a sign on a building that says "Berggruen"
Posted inArt

He left Berlin with 10 marks in his pocket, went to UC Berkeley — and came back with an art collection worth hundreds of millions

by Mervyn Rothstein October 15, 2024October 15, 2024
Composite of the artist with two of her most famous paintings. (Courtesy Tamara de Lempicka Estate)
Posted inArt

Film and de Young exhibit introduce audiences to an Art Deco icon with a complicated Jewish identity

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 9, 2024October 10, 2024
"The Tunnel," one of the pieces included in Simcha Toledano Moyal's "The Scream"
Posted inBooks

‘The Scream’ amplifies Israeli voices sharing their pain through poetry, art, prose

by Sue Fishkoff October 4, 2024November 21, 2024

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