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Barbra Streisand with director William Wyler (left) and Omar Sharif on the set of the film "Funny Girl," 1968. (Photo/JTA-Columbia Pictures-Getty Images)
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The most Jewish moments from Barbra Streisand’s new memoir

by Stephen Silver December 5, 2023
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Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten December 4, 2023May 2, 2024
"La Récolte des Foins, Eragny" by Camille Pissarro, 1887
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A Jewish artist so gifted, he could even teach a stone to paint

by Steven Kellman December 1, 2023
Herbert Gold at home in August of 2021. (Photo/George Barahona)
Posted inObituaries

Herbert Gold, San Francisco novelist who mined his own Jewish upbringing, dies at 99

by Andrew Silow-Carroll November 27, 2023
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Q&A: This historian says occultism isn’t ‘entirely at odds with Judaism’

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(From left) Dani Colman, Trina Robbins of San Francisco, Chanan Belzer and Yehudi Mercado discussed Jewish folklore in comics at JewCE,  (Photo/Forward-John Halpern)
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PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar November 16, 2023November 16, 2023
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A Jewish family story about defending a kibbutz in 1948 takes on new meaning

by Stav Ziv November 14, 2023November 15, 2023
"The Little Liar," the new novel by bestselling Jewish author Mitch Albom, is set in Salonika, Greece, before, during and after the Holocaust. (Photo/JTA-Jenny Risher / illustration by Mollie Suss)
Posted inBooks

Mitch Albom enters new Jewish territory with Holocaust novel ‘The Little Liar’

by Andrew Lapin November 10, 2023November 12, 2023
John Turturro stars in "Sabbath's Theater," which he adapted from the Philip Roth novel with the New Yorker writer Ariel Levy. (Photo/JTA-Monique Carboni)
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How New Yorker writer Ariel Levy adapted Philip Roth’s filthiest book for the stage

by Andrew Silow-Carroll November 7, 2023

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