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Two images. Left: Photo of a smiling woman with East Asian features in a denim jacket. Right: cover art for her novel, which featues a lavish illustration of a sailing ship on a turbulent sea.
Posted inBooks

Otherness meets expansive imagination in local author’s books for young readers

Rebecca Landau by Rebecca Landau May 20, 2021July 9, 2021
From the cover of "Antiquities" by Cynthia Ozick.
Posted inBooks

Dwell in the past with 2 new books, including Cynthia Ozick’s latest

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 12, 2021June 9, 2021
Sulaiman Khatib (far right) rebuilding with Combatants for Peace activists near Hebron. (Photo/Tatyana Gitlits)
Posted inBooks

Palestinian peace activist chooses Bay Area writer to tell his life story

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 5, 2021May 6, 2021
Defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.  (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum-Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, College Park)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Stanford begins work on massive digital archive of Nuremberg documents

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller April 22, 2021April 22, 2021
Posted inOff the Shelf

New books: Grandkids of Holocaust survivors grapple with trauma and silence

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman April 7, 2021June 9, 2021
Philip Roth with Allegra the cat, Manhattan, 1959. (Photo/Courtesy W.W. Norton & Company)
Posted inBooks

Highly anticipated Philip Roth biography delivers the goods

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 31, 2021March 31, 2021
Detail from the cover of “The Slaughterman’s Daughter” by Yaniv Iczkovits.
Posted inBooks

Jewish literature takes a turn toward adventure in two recent novels

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman March 19, 2021March 31, 2021
Artist Naomie Kremer giving a virtual tour of her painting exhibit “Embodiment” at Modernism in San Francisco, which closed temporarily due to the pandemic.
Posted inCulture

Our Pandemic Year: Artists faced a choice — pivot or perish

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 15, 2021October 15, 2024
Rabbi Shais Rishon speaks at a rally in New York City, Jan. 2020. (Photo/JTA-Gili Getz)
Posted inReligion

Rabbi Shais Rishon, an Orthodox anti-racism advocate, is turning his gaze to Jewish texts

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA March 8, 2021
The "Haggadeck," a deck of cards that's also a Passover haggadah, comes in a small drawstring bag. Seder plate not included. (Photo/Courtesy Taya Mâ Shere)
Posted inPassover

Want a haggadah with poetry? Or maybe you’d rather say, ‘Deal me in.’ 

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 4, 2021March 4, 2021

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