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Rabbi Elliot Kukla’s fantastical painting of Sylvia Rivera’s bedroom based on a photograph of the late transgender activist
Posted inCulture

Paintings show ‘magic and beauty’ in bedrooms of the ill

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 29, 2017December 28, 2017
Posted inCulture

Artwork by Reutlinger residents travels to SFO and beyond in 2018

by J. Staff December 28, 2017December 27, 2017
A cache of her father’s old letters spawned Melinda Hess’ documentary "Letter from Cloudcroft." (Screenshot/film trailer)
Posted inCulture

Dad’s 1946 letters expose startling secret in ‘Letter from Cloudcroft’

by Rob Gloster December 27, 2017March 23, 2018
Ari’el Stachel (right) plays matchmaker to two shy Israelis, played by Rachel Prather and Etai Benson, in the broadway musical "The Band's Visit." (Photo/JTA-Matt Murphy)
Posted inCulture

Berkeley actor finds Jewish-Arab identity on Broadway in ‘Band’s Visit’ adaptation

by Steve North December 20, 2017March 23, 2018
The 2017 Kennedy Center Honorees: LL Cool J, Lionel Ritchie, Carmen de Lavallade, Norman Lear and Gloria Estefan pose for a photo at the Kennedy Center Honors Dinner at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on December 2, 2017. (Photo/Flickr-State Department)
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Norman Lear goes to the Kennedy Center, the Pentagon Papers go to the movies

by Nate Bloom December 19, 2017March 23, 2018
From the New Yiddish Rep’s staging of  “Awake and Sing!” featuring (from left) Ronit Asheri, Moshe Lobel, Lea Kalisch, David Mandelbaum and Eli Rosen. (Photo/JTA-Pedro Hernandez)
Posted inCulture

Classic ‘Awake and Sing!’ gets Yiddish update while touching on immigration

by Andrew Silow-Carroll December 18, 2017March 23, 2018
Israeli music icon David Broza
Posted inCulture

David Broza bringing music, message of peace to S.F.

by Avishay Artsy December 12, 2017December 11, 2017
From 2015 Hanukkah episode of "The Goldbergs"
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‘The Goldbergs’ do Hanukkah; Franco does ‘The Room’

by Nate Bloom December 10, 2017March 23, 2018
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (Photo/Suzanne Karp)
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Why this 17th-century Italian Jewish ‘outlier’ composer is joining Handel in S.F.

by Rob Gloster December 7, 2017December 7, 2017
Mexican Jewish artist Yishai Jusidman's "Prussian Blue" series of paintings about the Holocaust is on display at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco through March 25.
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In S.F. exhibit, Mexican artist tackles ‘the problem of painting the Holocaust’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 6, 2017December 5, 2017

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