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the cover of "outside the lines" (blue with a black and white sketch of a section of the Embarcadero) next to a headshot of Meg Adler, a young woman with short hair and glasses
Posted inCulture

Tawonga staffer’s new coloring book encourages you to dispel pandemic stress by coloring ‘Outside the Lines’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull August 4, 2020March 12, 2021
From left: A screenshot of Peter Beinart's essay on a one-state solution; Jewish Currents' Spring 2020 cover featuring Horizons (Jerusalem), 1979 by Najib Joe Hakim; the magazine's editor, Arielle Angel. (Courtesy of Angel/Jewish Currents)
Posted inU.S.

Q&A: Jewish Currents editor on Seth Rogen, young Jews and that Peter Beinart essay

Laura E. Adkins by Laura E. Adkins and JTA August 3, 2020August 3, 2020
Raphael Bob-Waksberg, creator of "BoJack Horseman" (Photo/Courtesy of Netflix)
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Jewish Emmy noms; Rogen stirs the pot; Zelensky endorses Joaquin Phoenix film to save hostages; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 31, 2020August 5, 2020
Cover art for "All My Mother’s Lovers" (an abstract blue floral pattern with white type) and "Florence Adler Swims Forever" (a watercolor of a woman in a red swimsuit and swimming cap on a beach)
Posted inOff the Shelf

Secrets kept, secrets revealed as the main character dies in two debut novels

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 30, 2020July 31, 2020
Detail from “Do not forgive them, oh Lord, for they do know what they do! (after Luke 23:34)” by Arthur Szyk, part of the Magnes Collection. (Courtesy Magnes)
Posted inPhotography

Now online: Magnes exhibits of works by Vishniac and Szyk

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 29, 2020
two older men and one older woman struggle to get the corpse of another older man out of bed
Posted inTV

Move over ‘Shtisel’ — time to give other Israeli TV shows a look

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz July 29, 2020August 2, 2020
Chanan Tigay, shown here in Venice, crisscrossed the globe to research his book. (Photo/Emanuele Dello Strologo)
Posted inCulture

Journalist and SFSU professor Chanan Tigay wins Cowan literary prize for Biblical whodunnit

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 28, 2020July 30, 2020
Shira Haas, right, and Amit Rahav in “Unorthodox.” (Photo/Netflix)
Posted inTV & Film

Jewish Emmy nominations for 2020: ‘Unorthodox,’ ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Maisel’ and more

by Emily Burack and JTA July 28, 2020
black and white painting of a woman in period clothing
Posted inCulture

How did German Jews cope with a 17th-century plague? This woman’s 350-year-old memoir offers a glimpse.

by Penny Schwartz and JTA July 27, 2020July 27, 2020
Bust of older white man displayed in museum entryway
Posted inNews

S.F. Asian Art Museum to remove bust of founding donor with antisemitic views

by Gabriel Greschler July 23, 2020July 31, 2020

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