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Rachel Michelberg (second from left) is a longtime cantorial soloist who is playing Mother Abbess in an upcoming production of 'Sound of Music' in Los Altos.
Posted inMusic

She sings like a cantor and acts like a nun

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol July 18, 2018July 18, 2018
Still from "The Mossad" (Photo/courtesy JFI)
Posted inCulture

Unmasked for the first time, Mossad spies share big wins, fatal losses

by Dan Pine July 18, 2018
Actor Toby Jones in “The Entertainer” (Photo/Courtesy JFI)
Posted inTV & Film

SF Jewish Film Fest’s narrative shorts present pivotal passages in brief

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol July 17, 2018
Hans Moser in “The City Without Jews” (Photo/Courtesy JFI)
Posted inTV & Film

Restored 1924 Austrian satire eerily foreshadows Jewish fate

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 16, 2018
Jirí Menzel (left) and Peter Simonischek in “The Interpreter” (Photo/Courtesy Menemsha Films-JFI)
Posted inCulture

‘Interpreter’ evokes war angst in past and present Europe

by Michael Fox July 16, 2018July 27, 2018
Jowita Budnik as Rachel Auerbach, one of only three members of the secret Oyneg Shabes group to survive (Photo/Courtesy Anna Wloch-JFI)
Posted inFilm

The secret society that documented truth of the Warsaw Ghetto

by Rob Gloster July 13, 2018July 23, 2018
“The Man Who Stole Banksy,” part of this year's SF Jewish Film Festival asks if the mysterious street artist's work can be owned. Can it be removed? Can it be sold? (Photo/Courtesy JFI)
Posted inCulture

Banksy in the West Bank: Whose art is it anyway?

Hannah Jannol by Hannah Jannol July 13, 2018July 13, 2018
Peter Funt carries on his father's "Candid Camera" legacy
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: The keeper of ‘Candid Camera’s’ zany TV legacy

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller July 12, 2018July 13, 2018
Israeli writer Etgar Keret in “Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story" (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Film Institute)
Posted inCulture

Global zeitgeist on screen at 38th SF Jewish Film Festival

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 12, 2018July 13, 2018
Jerry Seinfeld and President Barack Obama in a 2015 episode of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," now available on Netflix
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Daveed Diggs comes home to Oakland; Seinfeld’s ‘Comedians in Cars’ on Netflix

by Nate Bloom July 11, 2018

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