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Pictures of banners  supporting Kanye West's comments about Jews went viral after members of the Goyim Defense League hate group dropped them from an overpass in Los Angeles, Oct. 22, 2022. (Screenshot from Twitter)
Posted inLocal Voice

Kanye West’s ‘Heil Hitler’ song turns hate into a hook

Morgan Blum Schneider, the director of the JFCS Holocaust Center, a program of Jewish Family
and Children’s Services. (Courtesy) by Morgan Blum Schneider May 14, 2025May 14, 2025
Weaver narrates "Shterna & the Lost Voice," as Kiah Raymond operates the "crankie." (Darren Port)
Posted inOn Stage

New Jewish folktale gets ‘crankie’ with old-timey storytelling device

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 7, 2025May 8, 2025
Mike Perlmutter of Saul Goodman’s Klezmer Band plays the clarinet at Saul’s. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inMusic

‘May the klez be with you’ this Jewish American Heritage Month

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 1, 2025May 2, 2025
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, in Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the Ode to Joy, on August 28, 2022. It was Tilson Thomas's last concert with the BSO, where he began his career in 1969, as its assistant conductor and pianist. (Hilary Scott/Courtesy Boston Symphony Orchestra).
Posted inMusic

Battling cancer, Michael Tilson Thomas prepares for his last concert

by Penny Schwartz April 21, 2025April 21, 2025
Fashion designer and cabaret signer Isaac Mizrahi will perform in the Bay Area in April. (David Andrako Photo)
Posted inMusic

‘I Know Everybody’: Isaac Mizrahi brings his flair for the dramatic to the Bay Area

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 16, 2025April 16, 2025
Three men, one very young and two very old, light candles in front of a packed auditorium
Posted inHolidays

Bay Area events for Yom HaShoah and Israel Memorial Day

by J. Staff April 14, 2025April 21, 2025
Dancers in rehearsal for Marika Brussel's "Slant of the Earth." (Courtesy)
Posted inDance

New ballet on Peninsula reinvents Genesis as a love quadrangle

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 8, 2025April 14, 2025
Musician Mikey Pauker is suing Harbin Hot Springs. (Courtesy River Siobhan-Sensation Media)
Posted inNorthern California

Harbin Hot Springs sued after canceling Hanukkah concert

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi April 7, 2025April 14, 2025
Doja Cat performs at the O2 Arena in London on June 14, 2024. (Raph_PH via Flickr)
Posted inMusic

The Jewish performers at Outside Lands, from Doja Cat to Gracie Abrams

by J. Staff April 1, 2025April 4, 2025
This screenshot from a video provided to J. shows a brief glimpse of a protester holding a Palestinian flag (only the black, white and green parts of the flag are visible) in front of the stage at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco as the Israel Philharmonic finished playing "Hatikvah," the Israeli national anthem, March 23, 2025. (Courtesy Marilyn Uzan)
Posted inBay Area

During Israel Philharmonic concert in S.F., attendees wrangle anti-Israel protesters themselves

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 24, 2025January 20, 2026

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