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Still from the film “Sefarad,” about Portuguese Jewish hero Artur Carlos de Barros Basto. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Community of Portugal)
Posted inFilm

This Portuguese Jewish community couldn’t afford a rabbi. Then it made a $1 million movie, coming to Amazon.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA November 22, 2019November 25, 2019
Sacha Baron Cohen speaks at the Anti-Defamation League's Never Is Now conference in New York, Nov. 21, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Jennifer Liseo-ADL)
Posted inCulture

Sacha Baron Cohen calls social media ‘the greatest propaganda machine in history’ at ADL conference

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA November 21, 2019November 22, 2019
Leonard Cohen in Nashville in 1968. (Photo/JTA-Tony Vaccaro-Getty Images)
Posted inMusic

Leonard Cohen album to be released posthumously

by Ron Kampeas and JTA November 20, 2019
From the cover of "Cosella Wayne: Or, Will and Destiny" by Cora Wilburn"
Posted inCulture

Newly uncovered first American Jewish novel reveals an early feminist voice

by Penny Schwartz and JTA November 19, 2019
Shira Kammen (Courtesy  Kammen)
Posted inMusic

Centuries-old Sephardic music plus bawdy songs about Virgin Mary in area concerts

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 18, 2019November 20, 2019
The Haim sisters, from left, Alana, Danielle and Este, of the group HAIM at Rodarte's fashion week show in San Marino, Calif., Feb. 5, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Presley Ann-Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Posted inMusic

HAIM, Jack Black and more record Hanukkah album

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA November 14, 2019November 14, 2019
“Unite” (1971) by Barbara Jones-Hugu, from the exhibit “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power”
Posted inArt & About

Revisiting 1968 at the de Young; art, booze and sacred words in East Bay

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 14, 2019November 13, 2019
Two new books by Israeli novelists: "The Liar" by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and "And The Bride Closed the Door" by Ronit Matalon.
Posted inOff the Shelf

Two Israeli novelists explore truth and integrity

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman November 13, 2019November 13, 2019
Elizabeth Banks as Bosley in the latest "Charlie's Angels" reboot movie.
Posted inFilm

Aly Raisman in ‘Charlie’s Angels’; Jon Bernthal is Lee Iacocca; Zoë Kravitz cast as Catwoman

by Nate Bloom November 12, 2019
The first issue of Sh'ma, First issue, Nov. 1970, was four-page bi-weekly journal. The last issue, Nov. 2019, was a monthly publication available online as a PDF.
Posted inCulture

Sh’ma, storied journal of ideas, is no more

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky November 11, 2019November 11, 2019

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