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Trina Robbins (center) with Jan Duursema (left) and Carol Kalish on the "Women in Comics" panel at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con. (Photo/Alan Light CC BY 2.0)
Posted inObituaries

Trina Robbins, 85, the first woman to draw a full issue of ‘Wonder Woman’

by JTA and J. Staff April 24, 2024April 24, 2024
Detail of an illustration from "The Awful Omen," A. J. Sass's contribution to the "On All Other Nights" anthology. (Illustration/Shannon Hochman)
Posted inBooks

Oakland writer A. J. Sass uses the afikomen hunt to explore a nonbinary child’s hopes and anxieties

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 17, 2024May 2, 2024
Joan Nathan at a National Yiddish Book Center event in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2011. (Photo/JTA-Dina Rudick-The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Posted inJewish Life

Joan Nathan, pioneering Jewish food maven, dishes all in her new autobiography

by Rachel Ringler April 15, 2024April 15, 2024
A young Sasha Vasilyuk with her grandfather on a lake in Ukraine. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inBooks

San Francisco author’s debut novel reveals her Soviet grandfather’s secret

by Sue Fishkoff April 11, 2024May 2, 2024
Amy Ettinger, shown with her husband Dan White, wrote about ice cream, mah-jongg and her mother's kugel recipe. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Dan White via X)
Posted inObituaries

Amy Ettinger, Santa Cruz writer who penned life-affirming essays on dying, succumbs to cancer at 49

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 9, 2024
Jessica Cohen has translated more than 30 books and dozens of shorter works by some of the most renowned Israeli writers. (Graphic/Andrew Esensten; Photo/Soona)
Posted inBooks

How Jessica Cohen became the go-to English translator of Israeli literature

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 3, 2024May 19, 2024
The Dayenu pages of the 2024 Asufa haggadah were illustrated by Hanna Heifetz.
Posted inBooks

New haggadahs in 2024: Biblical plants, American history and human rights

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky April 3, 2024April 15, 2024
In "The Emperor of Atlantis," death, tired of war and bloodshed, goes on strike. (Illustration/Patrick Lay)
Posted inComics

In 1943, an opera was composed at a concentration camp. Now, it’s a graphic novel

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar April 2, 2024April 2, 2024
From the cover of "Stockholm" by Noa Yedlin
Posted inBooks

Friends hope for benefits by concealing a death in Israeli novelist’s dark comedy

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman March 28, 2024May 2, 2024
At 81, Janet Silver Ghent has published her memoir. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inBooks

Longtime J. staffer peppers memoir of ‘late-life love’ with humor, brutal honesty

Natalie Weinstein in downtown San Francisco, Feb. 24, 2026. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Natalie Weinstein March 25, 2024May 2, 2024

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