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From the cover of "Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker" by Lauren Rebecca Sklar
Posted inColumns

Why audiences plotzed over these forgotten performers

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman June 1, 2018August 20, 2018
(From left) Israel's S.F.-based consul general Shlomi Kofman, SFPD Assistant Chief Toney Chaplin and City Engineer of Haifa Ariel Waterman (Photo/Laura Paull)
Posted inCulture

From Bay to Bay: Pier 27 periscope brings Haifa into view, live

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 1, 2018June 11, 2018
Visitors looking at Janis Joplin’s clothing in the exhibition "Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution" at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in 2018
(File/Andria Lo)
Posted inArt, Culture

CJM turns 10: Is it contemporary, Jewish or a museum?

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 31, 2018June 26, 2019
Israeli author Yossi Klein Halevi
Posted inCulture

Now in Arabic! Yossi Klein Halevi brings acclaimed ‘Letters’ to Palo Alto

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 30, 2018
Jack and Madeline Gilford, playwright Joe Gilford's parents. (Photo/Courtesy Joe Gilford)
Posted inCulture

‘Finks’ playwright bares family’s battles during ugly blacklist era

by Rob Gloster May 29, 2018May 29, 2018
Miriam Peretz (left) and Eliyahu Sills of the Ladino Project (Photo/Victoria Bahr)
Posted inCulture

Telling women’s stories through Ladino music and dance

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 29, 2018May 29, 2018
Gabriella Farber as Bella Cohen and Rita Petviashvili as Sarah Davis (Photo/Ivan Nikolaev)
Posted inCulture

Teen musical ‘Jeans!’ tells the essential SF Jewish immigrant story

by Rob Gloster May 28, 2018May 29, 2018
Richard Benjamin, right, as Alexander Portnoy in a 1972 film adaptation of "Portnoy's Complaint." Lee Grant, on left, played Portnoy's mother. (Photo/JTA-Warner Brothers-Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

Writing after Roth: ‘Now vee may perhaps to begin’

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin May 24, 2018
Olivier Award winner Katie Brayben (Pearl) and Jonah Platt (Marty) in rehearsal for the world-premiere musical “A Walk on the Moon,” opening June 9 at ACT.
Posted inCulture

ACT’s sexy ‘Walk on the Moon’ a Jewish tour de force

by Rob Gloster May 24, 2018May 25, 2018
At the German Consulate in S.F., violinist Mikhail Shmidt and cellist Water Gray of the Seattle Symphony perform excerpts from the upcoming Music of Remembrance concert. (Photo/Gabriele Lange)
Posted inCulture

Holocaust music series addresses Japanese internment this year

by Rob Gloster May 17, 2018May 16, 2018

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