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Zion80's 2014 performance at the Ashkenaz Festival is on YouTube in full, just one of endless Jewish concerts you can stream online. (FILE PHOTO)
Posted inCulture, Music

Bring the music to you with these 8 Jewish concerts on YouTube

by Andrew Muchin March 31, 2020March 31, 2020
San Franciscan Mica Jamel-Schneider greets some baseball-loving Cuban peers in a still from "Havana Curveball."
Posted inFilm

Have your own private film festival with Jewish Film Institute’s ‘Cinegogue Sessions’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 28, 2020March 30, 2020
Screenshot of the Contemporary Jewish Museum's virtual tour of its exhibit “Levi Strauss: A History of American Style.”
Posted inArt & About

Art, concerts and museums during a pandemic: What is ‘local’?

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 27, 2020March 30, 2020
Ben Cole as President Charles Linbergh (left) and John Turturro as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf in "The Plot Against America." (HBO)
Posted inTV & Film

‘The Plot Against America’ is a jagged pill in overwhelming times

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz March 25, 2020March 26, 2020
Writer couple Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman (ANDY FREEBERG)
Posted inFood

Prominent Berkeley writer’s coronavirus relief effort helps restaurants and hospital workers

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 24, 2020March 25, 2020
The Jewish Community Library has made books available for tablets, Kindles and other devices. (MAYA MIRSKY)
Posted inCulture

Serendipitous timing: S.F. Jewish library launches ebook program

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 23, 2020March 31, 2020
Dr. Ilana Sherer, pediatrician and klezmer player.
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: A pediatrician who helps trans kids and moonlights playing klezmer

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 23, 2020
Covers of "A Bookshop in Berlin" by Francoise Frenkel and "Odyssey of an Apple Thief" by Moishe Rozenbaumas
Posted inOff the Shelf

Newly translated from French, these two Holocaust memoirs are a treasure

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman March 20, 2020March 20, 2020
Sam Cohen’s violin (COURTESY MARSHA COHEN)
Posted inCulture

Holocaust-era fiddle, via S.F., joins Violins of Hope

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 19, 2020
Gene Wilder (left) and Harrison Ford as a Polish rabbi and an American bank robber in "The Frisco Kid," in which the odd couple travels west to San Francisco together.
Posted inTV & Film

Hunkered down at home? Here are 10 Jewish things to watch

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz March 18, 2020

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