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Sarah (left) and Hagar form an unlikely bond in “Harmonia.”
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

Midrash on film: Biblical drama unfolds as modern heartbreak

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky July 17, 2017March 23, 2018
David (Brandon Polansky) and Sarah (Samantha Elisofon) are a couple in the romantic comedy “Keep the Change.”
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

Romantic comedy heralds ‘Change’ through autistic lovers

by Michael Fox July 14, 2017March 23, 2018
A scene from the digitally restored version of “Avanti Popolo,” a 1986 comical saga about the 1967 War
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

S.F. Jewish Film Fest packs Karl Marx, Al Gore, Hedy Lamarr and more into 17 days

by Liz Harris July 13, 2017March 23, 2018
Still from the audiovisual composition “offgrid offline” (Photo/Courtesy Tel Aviv Museum of Art)
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, Music, TV & Film

Direct from Israel, Kutiman’s audiovisual jazz irrupts into CJM

Daniel Bromfield by Daniel Bromfield July 12, 2017March 23, 2018
Wise Sons co-foudners Evan Bloom (left) and Leo Beckerman at the original location on 24th Street in the Mission in 2013 (Photo/Alanna Hale)
Posted inFood, Culture

New Wise Sons location will bring bagels and expanded lunch menu to Marin

by J. Staff July 11, 2017July 19, 2017
From "To Take Up a Lulav (Palm Branch) and an Etrog (Citron)," in Archie Rand's "The 613" series
Posted inArt, Culture

Vibrant art series explores ‘The 613’ mitzvot boldly, bodaciously

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller July 10, 2017January 10, 2018
a corned beef sandwich
Posted inUncategorized, Food, Recipe, Columns, Culture

Deli-style, cured corned beef isn’t difficult to make

Shelly Butcher by Shelly Butcher July 7, 2017July 6, 2017
From the cover art for "Strange Contagion: Inside the Surprising Science of Infectious Behaviors and Viral Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves" by Lee Daniel Kravetz
Posted inArt, Books, Columns, Culture, Author! Author!

The mystery of Palo Alto high school suicides; and the ‘New Science of Success’

by Liz Harris July 6, 2017July 7, 2017
From the cover art for "Books of the People: Revisiting Classic Works of Jewish Thought"
Posted inArt, Books, Columns, Culture, Off the Shelf

Four new Jewish books are tour guides to old ones

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 5, 2017July 11, 2017
a suspicious looking man in a dark hallway
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

German movie tells the true story of a plot that almost killed Hitler

by Tom Tugend July 3, 2017March 23, 2018

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