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A young Sasha Vasilyuk with her grandfather on a lake in Ukraine. (Photo/Courtesy)
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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
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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)
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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
Benyamin Cohen looks at bust of Einstein
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‘I live and breathe Einstein’: Author to speak in Palo Alto about ‘world’s favorite genius’

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz March 22, 2024May 2, 2024
Maya Arad (Photo/Mira Mamon)
Posted inBooks

‘The Hebrew Teacher’: Maya Arad cracks open lives of Israeli expats in first book in English

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 19, 2024May 2, 2024
Calvin Trillin (Photo/Wikipedia)
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‘New Yorker’ journalist Calvin Trillin reflects on decades of reporting in ‘The Lede’

Curt Schleier by Curt Schleier March 1, 2024March 1, 2024

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