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“September 5” shows a team of ABC News producers struggling with live coverage decisions as tragedy unfolds in front of them during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. (Courtesy of Paramount PIctures)
Posted inFilm

‘September 5’ focuses on news, not Jews, in dramatizing 1972 Munich attack on Israeli Olympians

by Stephen Silver December 13, 2024December 13, 2024
A view of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia (Shoot from Within)
Posted inU.S.

Biden signs law that could lead to US Jewish history museum joining the Smithsonian

by Ron Kampeas December 12, 2024December 12, 2024
Sandberg sits next on stage next to a man who holds a microphone as her speaks
Posted inBay Area

Sheryl Sandberg’s local shul screens her ‘painful’ film about Hamas sexual violence

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 11, 2024December 12, 2024
and older white man and a younger asian woman dance tango. she gazes ahead, he stares straight into the camera
Posted inUncategorized

How tango captured the heart and soles of this Jewish immigrant

Laura Pall by Laura Paull December 10, 2024December 11, 2024
Artist Beth Grossman's "Golden Rule," part of the exhibit "Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves," seen through the windows of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco (Kevin Fyer)
Posted inFirst Person

As a Jewish artist, the CJM closure is a personal loss

Beth Grossman by Beth Grossman December 9, 2024December 11, 2024
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late Supreme Court justice, made the cut in “Chutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women.” (Courtesy)
Posted inCulture

Co-authors shout out the ‘Chutzpah Girls’ of the Jewish past and present

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 5, 2024December 9, 2024
Arnold Eisen describes his new book as "what I think can be said about the unsayable." (Ben Yehuda Press)
Posted inBooks

Allergic to ‘God-talk’? Jewish thinker Arnold Eisen wants a word

by Andrew Silow-Carroll December 4, 2024December 4, 2024
a man and a woman sit on a stage. the man is speaking into a microphone and holding up a book.
Posted inBooks

In new book, Zionists of Gen Z forge their own path with defiance and pride

by Sue Fishkoff December 3, 2024December 4, 2024
a male singer, two male guitarists, and a woman playing an instrument that is out of frame, rock out in the crowded, book-lined NPR Tiny Desk Concert venue
Posted inMusic

Promising ‘no stupid Hanukkah songs,’ The Leevees strive for a ‘two-song solution’

by Jim Sullivan December 3, 2024December 3, 2024
Oosh's online marketplace sells items such as mezuzot that are handcrafted by Israeli artists. (Courtesy Oosh)
Posted inJudaica

Berkeley native who made aliyah starts online store to elevate Israeli artists

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz December 2, 2024December 3, 2024

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