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"Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation"
Posted inComics

A new version of Anne Frank’s diary is being called pornography and getting banned from schools

by Andrew Lapin June 14, 2023
Kevin “Kasper” Cole temporarily succeeded T'challa, the original Black Panther. (Photo/Marvel Comics)
Posted inComics

20 years ago, Marvel introduced a Jewish Black Panther

by Eric Schulmiller June 7, 2023June 7, 2023
Joanne Greene is the author of "By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go"
Posted inBooks

‘By Accident’: Marin radio host hit by car reflects on how to handle setbacks in memoir

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 6, 2023June 7, 2023
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of Jewish Renewal, at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Connecticut, in 2007. (Photo/JTA-Daniel Sieradski)
Posted inOpinion

Overdue or overdone? Two scholars hope to secure the legacy of ‘Jewish Renewal’

by Andrew Silow-Carroll May 30, 2023May 30, 2023
covers of "We Set the Night on Fire," "Sculpting a Life" and "Workin' for a Livin'"
Posted inCulture

New books by local authors dive into music biz, gay history, sci-fi and Jewish theology

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 24, 2023May 25, 2023
Leah Ai Tian is the hero of "The Last Jewish Daughter of Kaifeng." (Photo/JTA-Courtesy FairSquare Comics)
Posted inComics

An Asian-Jewish superhero fights the 1970s Chinese mob in comic book debut

Julian Voloj by Julian Voloj May 22, 2023
From the cover of "The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants" by Orlando Ortega-Medina
Posted inOff the Shelf

‘Fitful Sleep of Immigrants’: Novel set in S.F. peels back the layers of a gay Jew’s psyche

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 19, 2023May 19, 2023
Paul Newman as Ari Ben Canaan in "Exodus."
Posted inBooks

‘Exodus’ was the bestselling novel that shaped a generation of Jews — does anybody still read it?

by Jenny Singer May 17, 2023May 17, 2023
From the cover of "Dyed in Crimson" by Zev Eleff
Posted inCulture

Before Koufax, there was Arnold Horween, a Jewish Harvard football captain who changed American sports

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis May 15, 2023
Author and Rabbi Harold Kushner is pictured with his best-selling book, "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," in 2001. (Photo/JTA-Ron Bull-Toronto Star via Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of ‘When Bad Things Happen to Good People,’ dies at 88

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer, Ben Harris and JTA May 1, 2023May 1, 2023

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