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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
Posted inU.S.

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)
Posted inFilm

Chinese food and a movie on Christmas? Here are our Bay Area recs

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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
Director Rob Reiner in a discussion following a screening of the film "LBJ" at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 (Jay Godwin)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Rob Reiner told J. he saw political activism through a Jewish lens

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 16, 2025December 17, 2025
Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner attend Human Rights Campaign’s 2025 Los Angeles Dinner at Fairmont Century Plaza on March 22, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Human Rights Campaign)
Posted inFilm

Rob Reiner, iconic Jewish director and actor, and wife Michele found dead

by Andrew Lapin December 15, 2025December 15, 2025
A still from "Among Neighbors" with Pelagia Radecka, who was an eyewitness to murder as a child. (Courtesy)
Posted inFilm

One day to see ‘Among Neighbors,’ the local film causing controversy in Poland

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 11, 2025December 11, 2025

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