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      Sarah Silvermans is back with the toilet humor, but over the lectures. (Photo/Courtesy HBO)

      Comedy

      In her new special, Sarah Silverman reminds us why we love her

      This story was originally published in the Forward. Early in the pandemic, Sarah Silverman tried (and largely failed) to win us back with diarrhea. When…
      By PJ Grisar May 25, 2023
      covers of "We Set the Night on Fire," "Sculpting a Life" and "Workin' for a Livin'"

      Author! Author!

      New books by local authors cover music biz, gay history and more

      “Zieglitz’s Blessing” By Michael Goldberg (Cascade Books, 208 pages) Ricky Zieglitz is studying for his bar mitzvah when his family is rocked by tragedy —…
      By Andrew Esensten May 24, 2023
      Matthew Woody as Feivel in the Children’s Theatre Company production of "An American Tail: The Musical" in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo/Glen Stubbe Photography)

      Theater

      The animated classic ‘An American Tail’ is now a musical

      (JTA) — Itamar Moses was 10 years old when he watched “An American Tail” at his Jewish day school in California. He was struck by the 1986 film, an…
      By Shira Li Bartov May 24, 2023
      Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco performs at Manny's, December 2019. (Photo/Gail Rubman)

      Music

      Jewish Folk Chorus returns with tribute to Oakland klezmer legend

      Adrienne Cooper has been called the mother of the modern revival of klezmer music and Yiddish songwriting. In the 1980s, when Yiddish was primarily spoken…
      By Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 23, 2023
      Promotional art of Sebastian the crab, voiced by Daveed Diggs, as he appears in Disney's new live action remake of "The Little Mermaid."

      Film

      Daveed Diggs is playing a crab — is that kosher?

      This story was originally published in the Forward. When the live action “Little Mermaid” breaches movie screens May 26, bloated and noisome…
      By PJ Grisar May 23, 2023
      Comedian Pamela Schuller goes on a date with Stuart in an episode of "Jewish Matchmaking." (Photo/Courtesy Schuller)

      The Bagel Report

      'Jewish Matchmaking' with comedian Pamela Schuller

      Jewish Matchmaking? On Netflix? Who could have predicted this a year ago? Now that The Bagels have finished bingeing the series, they got a chance to…
      By The Bagels May 22, 2023
      Performance of the Kovno ghetto orchestra. (Photo/Courtesy US.. Holocaust Memorial Museum)

      Music

      ‘Songs of Truth’ from composers slain in Holocaust make S.F. debut

      They wrote jazz pieces, lullabies, operas and concertos just like other 20th-century European composers. But these artists were Jews who wrote…
      By Dan Pine May 22, 2023
      Leah Ai Tian is the hero of "The Last Jewish Daughter of Kaifeng." (Photo/JTA-Courtesy FairSquare Comics)

      Comics

      An Asian-Jewish superhero fights the Chinese mob in new comic

      (JTA) — An independent comic book publisher that aims to promote diversity in comics is about to spotlight a historic new character: the Asian-Jewish Leah…
      By Julian Voloj May 22, 2023
      From the cover of "The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants" by Orlando Ortega-Medina

      Off the Shelf

      Novel set in S.F. peels back the layers of a gay Jew’s psyche

      Set in San Francisco, “The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants” by Orlando Ortega-Medina is striking because the author manages to pack so many elements into a…
      By Howard Freedman May 19, 2023
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