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Lila Thielmans in the new documentary "Yiddish." (Photo/Courtesy Icarus Films)
Posted inFilm

‘Yiddish’ documentary spotlights 20th-century poets and their 21st-century admirers

by Michael Fox March 1, 2021March 3, 2021
Sacha Baron Cohen smiles after winning one of his two Golden Globes via video stream, Feb. 28, 2021. (Photo/JTA-HFPA via Getty Images)
Posted inFilm

Golden Globes: Sacha Baron Cohen wins big, and other Jewish moments

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman March 1, 2021March 1, 2021
Author Emma Wolf's novel "Heirs of Yesterday" is in print once more with a new edition.
Posted inCulture

Early S.F. author Emma Wolf, ‘mother of American Jewish fiction,’ gets a new reprint 120 years later

by Liz Harris February 28, 2021February 28, 2021
Administrators at St. Mary's College in Moraga have temporarily removed "Falcon Boy" by Fritz von Graevenitz. (Photo/Vanessa Ramirez)
Posted inNews

Statue by Nazi-era artist under review at St. Mary’s College

by Gabriel Greschler February 26, 2021March 1, 2021
Zoe Kravitz in "High Fidelity."
Posted inCulture

Maxwell the singing Jewish wrestler; Carole King up for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; Azealia Banks is (not) a Jew; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 26, 2021March 1, 2021
Tricia Creason-Valencia outside MACLA, a Latinx arts center in San Jose.
Posted inCulture

Q&A: She’s helping Latino kids in San Jose find a voice in media arts

by Liz Harris February 25, 2021March 2, 2021
From the poster for "Stranger/Sister," which will be streaming as part of the Sacramento Jewish Film Festival.
Posted inFilm

Array of genres, countries in Sacramento Jewish film fest

Laura Pall by Laura Paull February 24, 2021
Michael Che makes a joke about Israel's vaccine rollout on Saturday Night Live on Feb. 20, 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inOpinion

What Jewish comedians made of Michael Che’s Israel joke

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA February 24, 2021February 26, 2021
Students at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton look at art from the center in March 2020.
Posted inNews

In East Bay, traveling Holocaust ‘center’ uses art to tell story of the Shoah

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 22, 2021
Philippe Tlokinski as Stan Ulam in "Adventures of a Mathematician."
Posted inFilm

Ethics and science and the Manhattan Project in ‘Adventures of a Mathematician’ 

by Michael Fox February 22, 2021February 22, 2021

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