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Jodie Foster stars in her first French-language lead role in “A Private Life.” (Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics)
Posted inFilm

Jodie Foster plays a Jewish psychiatrist in darkly funny thriller ‘A Private Life’ 

by J. Staff January 2, 2026January 2, 2026
Sunny Schwartz sounds a shofar during an event on Rosh Hashanah 2025 at San Francisco's Crissy Field East Beach. The Golden Gate Bridge stands in background. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Our best photos of Bay Area Jewish life in 2025

Aaron Levy-Wolins by Aaron Levy-Wolins December 30, 2025December 30, 2025
"Long Story Short" is the latest animated show from Raphael Bob-Waksberg. (Left photo courtesy of [K]overt Creative)
Posted inThe J. Interview

Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s latest cartoon features a Bay Area Jewish family

Yael Bright by Yael Bright December 26, 2025December 29, 2025
Rabbi Rafi Ellenson (L) and Rabbi Arielle Stein (R), the creators of the "Rabbinic Fit Check" Instagram account. (JTA/Rafi Ellenson)
Posted inFashion

Los Gatos rabbi’s ‘Rabbinic Fit Check’ takes off on Instagram

by Grace Gilson December 26, 2025December 26, 2025
Corey Rosen hosts The Moth’s StorySLAM shows in San Francisco and Berkeley and has written two books on storytelling. (Courtesy Pranay Pareek)
Posted inThe J. Interview

Like a ‘Moth’ to a flame, Corey Rosen is drawn to storytelling

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 23, 2025December 23, 2025
The exterior of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in the days after a white supremacist murdered 11 people during Shabbat services in October 2018.
(Still from "Repairing the World")
Posted inTV & Film

Tree of Life documentary from Oakland filmmaker streaming on PBS

by Jordan Palmer December 23, 2025December 24, 2025
Rob Reiner
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Rob Reiner urges resilience in video for Holocaust survivor event — recorded shortly before his murder

by Grace Gilson December 23, 2025December 23, 2025
“Coexistence, My Ass!” is SFJFF's opening-night film. The documentary features former U.N. diplomat turned standup comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi examining her shifting perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Courtesy SFJFF)
Posted inFilm

Three docs on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one with local ties, make Oscars shortlist

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 19, 2025December 19, 2025
There are two Chinese joints around the corner from the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland! (Thomas Hawk via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)
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Chinese food and a movie on Christmas? Here are our Bay Area recs

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 18, 2025December 18, 2025
“Always Carry Salt” author Samantha Ellis’ mother at the arch of Ctesiphon near Baghdad in the 1960s. (Courtesy Samantha Ellis)
Posted inOff the Shelf

In memoir, author yearns for an Iraqi Jewish culture just out of reach

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman December 17, 2025December 17, 2025

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