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Jay Rosenblatt, program director at the Jewish Film Institute, discusses films with the youth jury for the 2019 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. (Photo/Courtesy JFI)
Posted inFilm

New JFI fellowship for teens into films and changing the world

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 18, 2021
Tovah Feldshuh (right) and Israeli American actress Chen Drachman, who penned the screenplay for “The Book of Ruth.”
Posted inTV & Film

Short film starring Tovah Feldshuh comes to San Jose film fest

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 17, 2021March 17, 2021
Netta sticks her tongue out, holding trophy and israeli flag, surrounded by supporters
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Netta joins Israeli ‘X Factor’; Celebs show off their ‘vaxxies’; Spielberg tells his own story; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 16, 2021
Jewlia Eisenberg, the musical polymath behind Charming Hostess, Book of J. and a million other projects, has passed away from a rare autoimmune disease at the age of 50.
Posted inObituaries

In memoriam: Jewlia Eisenberg, a shining star in the musical Jewniverse 

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert March 16, 2021March 16, 2021
Chris Silver, a professor of Jewish History at McGill University, collects records from around the world for the first archive of North African Jewish music, currently housed in his apartment in Montreal.
Posted inCulture

This historian is preserving North African Jewish music from a bygone era

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA March 15, 2021March 15, 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
Alana Haim, Danielle Haim and Este Haim of the sister act Haim attend the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, March 14, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Kevin Mazur-Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Posted inMusic

The Jewish highlights of the 2021 Grammys: Breakout performance but no win for Jewish sister act Haim

by Emily Burack and JTA March 15, 2021
A vineyard in Israel. (Photo/Courtesy Jeff Morgan)
Posted inCulture

Documentary on Israeli wine turns sour on kosher issue

Jeff Morgan by Jeff Morgan March 10, 2021March 15, 2021
Naomi Newman as Reb Eli in the upcoming Zoom play "God of Vengeance." (Photo/Courtesy Newman)
Posted inTheater

A queer, heretical Yiddish play too edgy for 1907 lives again on Zoom

by Patricia Corrigan March 9, 2021September 14, 2022
A scene from "Nurses," which aired on NBC on Feb. 9, 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inOpinion

‘Dead goyim leg’: Why do medical dramas keep perpetuating terrible stereotypes about Orthodox Jews?

Shoshana Gottlieb by Shoshana Gottlieb and JTA March 9, 2021

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