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Former Vice-President Al Gore, center, with Bay Area filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, July 24, 2017. (Photo Courtesy SFJFF)
Posted inCulture

Rob Lowe, Rodney Dangerfield and Martin Landau

by Nate Bloom August 1, 2017August 7, 2017
Tayla Solomon and the "Lethal Ladies of BLSYW" in the film "Step." (Photo Courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures. © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation )
Posted inFilm

Ace producer takes another big ‘Step’ for tikkun olam

by Michael Fox August 1, 2017March 23, 2018
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, 2006 (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inMusic

Israel Philharmonic to play Oct. 31 in S.F.

by Rob Gloster July 31, 2017July 31, 2017
'Death over Dessert' uses storytelling to help people talk about death.
Posted inCulture

Talking death over dessert at the Contemporary Jewish Museum

by Saul Sugarman July 31, 2017March 23, 2018
Oakland chef and businessowner Lee Davidson
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Chef creates ‘food healing spaces’ to intensify the senses

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 31, 2017August 7, 2017
A group of survivors from Lodz formed the Happy Boys in 1945 and played in displaced persons camps. (Photo/Courtesy U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum-Henry Baigelman Collection)
Posted inUncategorized

A Lodz family’s musical legacy becomes story of resistance

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett July 29, 2017September 20, 2019
Subhi Nahas speaks at the S.F. Jewish Film Festival. (Photo/Pat Mazerra)
Posted inCulture

Syrian-born gay man adds his perspective to S.F. Jewish Film Fest screening

David-Elijah Nahmod by David-Elijah Nahmod July 28, 2017May 26, 2021
Josie A.G. Shapiro's Blackberry Cardamom Cobbler
Posted inRecipe, Food, Columns, Culture

Become a potluck hero with butter cake and berry cardamom cobbler

by Josie A.G. Shapiro July 27, 2017July 25, 2017
looking winded, bobbi jene leans against a wall outside
Posted inArt, Dance, Culture, Film, On Stage, TV & Film

S.F. dancer goes ‘Gaga’ in dynamic documentary

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 26, 2017March 23, 2018
Naomi looks wary in an unadorned apartment with a cool blue-white tint
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

Gothic thrills take Israeli film ‘A Quiet Heart’ to dark places

by Michael Fox July 25, 2017March 23, 2018

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