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Actresses (from left) Brooke Adams, Emily Baldoni and Piper Laurie as three generations of women in Jan Miller Corran’s “Snapshots.” (Photo/Sunny Bak)
Posted inCulture

A mother’s deathbed confession inspired film about fallout from old family secrets

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller June 15, 2018June 15, 2018
Aryeh Green near his hometown of Beit Shemesh in the center of Israel on the last day of his trek (Photo/Yonatan Green)
Posted inBooks

A life-changing hike down the spine of Israel

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn June 13, 2018
Ari’el Stachel with his mother, Laura Stachel, at the Tony Awards on June 10
Posted inTheater

Two from Bay Area win big at Tony Awards

by JTA and J. Staff June 11, 2018June 13, 2018
Anthony Bourdain (right) in Bethlehem with the founder of a Palestinian children's theater program in the Jerusalem episode of Bourdain's "Parts Unknown" series
Posted inCulture

Anthony Bourdain used food to bridge divides — even between Arabs and Jews

by Charles Dunst June 11, 2018June 11, 2018
(From left) Filmmaker David Weissman, subject Jack Lasner and editor Ben Zweig
Posted inCulture, Film, TV & Film

Bringing gay elders’ stories alive for the next generation

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller June 11, 2018June 13, 2018
Dashka Slater
Posted inBooks

California Book Awards for three local Jewish authors

by J. Staff June 8, 2018June 11, 2018
Ari’el Stachel (right) plays matchmaker to two shy Israelis, played by Rachel Prather and Etai Benson, in the broadway musical "The Band's Visit." (Photo/JTA-Matt Murphy)
Posted inColumns

The Jews go to the Tonys, 2018 — including Berkeley’s own Ari’el Stachel

by Nate Bloom June 7, 2018
Completed mural designed by Izzy Young and commissioned by Contra Costa Midrasha’s “Restore Newman” elective
Posted inCulture

Mural brings Camp Newman spirit to temporary home

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 6, 2018
Chanan Tigay, shown here in Venice, crisscrossed the globe to research his book. (Photo/Emanuele Dello Strologo)
Posted inCulture

Rohr Prize in Jewish lit winners announced; finalists include Oakland’s Chanan Tigay

by J. Staff June 5, 2018
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (left) and Martin Luther King (center) marching in Selma, Alabama
Posted inBooks, Culture

Dismantling the myths of the black-Jewish civil rights alliance

by Jackie Krentzman June 5, 2018June 26, 2018

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