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Rabbi Me’irah Iliinsky with her painting “The Tree of Life Is Weeping”
Posted inArt

Gift for Pittsburgh: S.F. rabbi’s ‘Weeping’ painting

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 25, 2019
Cubed members (from left) Nataan Hong, Ezra Rosen, Harrison Saltzman and Claire Banks
Posted inMusic

Rockers ready to play hard — but first, middle school

Daniel Bromfield by Daniel Bromfield March 22, 2019March 25, 2019
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen is one of the few Jewish opera singers in the country. (Photo/Kristen Loken)
Posted inOn Stage

Young Jewish opera star comes to Bay Area as King David himself

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 20, 2019March 21, 2019
From the cover of "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth
Posted inBooks

Philip Roth’s prescient ‘Plot Against America’ is focus of event series

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 19, 2019March 20, 2019
The new FX series “What We Do in the Shadows,” is based on a 2014 film of the same name co-directed and co-written by Taika Waititi, who also appears in the series (left).
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Daveed Diggs takes a ride with Steph Curry; Jews and vampires; etc.

by Nate Bloom March 19, 2019March 19, 2019
(From left) Anastasia Fein as Tania, Tzion Baruch as Juda and Amos Tamam as Asher in the Israeli vampire TV show "Juda" (Photo/ Banijay Rights)
Posted inTV & Film

‘Juda’ is an Israeli vampire show you’ll want to sink your teeth into

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz March 18, 2019
Perla Batalla with her mentor, Leonard Cohen. (Photo/Courtesy Perla Batalla)
Posted inMusic

Leonard Cohen’s backup singer to pay tribute to mentor in S.F.

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 14, 2019March 13, 2019
three young women (including two blind lead singers) and five young men stand around a drum set with the Shalva Band logo on it, smiling and posing; a young man with Down syndrome holds his hands up in a heart shape
Posted inMusic

Why this Israeli band of disabled musicians said no to Eurovision

Gil Stein by Gil Stein March 13, 2019March 13, 2019
Ketubahs by Anna Abramzon for couples that lost theirs in recent Northern California wildfires
Posted inCulture

North Bay artist makes new ketubahs for survivors of natural disasters

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 13, 2019April 3, 2019
Susanne (Sanne) Kalter DeWitt’s debut memoir is called “I Was Born in an Old Age Home.”
Posted inAuthor! Author!

Two vivid memoirs of Holocaust survival from local authors

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 12, 2019

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