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“Beetles” by Cynthia Peppers — one of many submissions we received from local artists for the cover of our annual "Resource" guide to Jewish life in the Bay Area.
Posted inCulture

On our ‘Resource’ cover and off: an outpouring from Bay Area artists

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 3, 2019July 3, 2019
Dr. Louise Aronson’s new book is “Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life.”
Posted inBooks

70 is 70, not ‘the new 50,’ says S.F. doctor’s new book

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller July 2, 2019July 2, 2019
Basketball star Andre Iguodala discussing his new memoir at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, June 28, 2019 (Photo/JCCSF-Adam Silverman)
Posted inBooks

Warrior no more: ‘True mensch’ Andre Iguodala discusses new memoir at JCCSF

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman July 1, 2019July 1, 2019
Mama De La Smallah performs at a 2019 Tel Aviv Pride event for her drag house, WERK, at the Desire Club in South Tel Aviv. (Photo/JTA-Laura E. Adkins)
Posted inPride, Culture, On Stage, Holidays, Jewish Life

Meet a 20 year-old IDF combat soldier, drag queen and political activist

Laura E. Adkins by JTA and Laura E. Adkins June 28, 2019June 28, 2019
John Goodman as Walter Sobchak in "The Big Lebowski." (Shut up, Donny.)
Posted inTV & Film

We need fewer stereotypical Jews on TV — and more Walter Sobchaks

by Molly Pascal June 26, 2019June 26, 2019
Posted inOff the Shelf

New books: Arab Jews, Latino Jews and other complicated identities

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman June 25, 2019June 26, 2019
Mel Brooks plays Melephant Brooks (not pictured) in the fourth Toy Story movie.
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Melephant Brooks, Carl Reineroceros and the other Jews of ‘Toy Story 4’

by Nate Bloom June 24, 2019
Vanessa Bayer is best known as a former "Saturday Night Live" cast member, but she's also the author of a new children's book that reflects her own experience with illness as a child.
Posted inBooks

SNL alum Vanessa Bayer on comedy, her new children’s book and childhood illness

by Dan Pine June 21, 2019June 21, 2019
Handmaids rehearse “the ceremony” in Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Photo/George Kraychyk)
Posted inTV & Film

How the future of ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ echoes our Biblical past

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz June 20, 2019June 20, 2019
Scene from "The Picture of His Life," one of the movies screening at the 2019 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Posted inFilm

Tickets on sale for San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 19, 2019June 25, 2019

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