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a smiling blonde woman takes a selfie with a man dressed as Santa
Posted inTV

This Jewish S.F. native has written 12 Hallmark Christmas movies (and 2 about Hanukkah)

Benyamin Cohen by Benyamin Cohen December 24, 2024December 26, 2024
A black woman sings with a choir in robes behind her
Posted inMusic

San Francisco’s Glide church may be the ‘only place where a Jewish girl can run the gospel choir’

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert December 19, 2024December 19, 2024
Brady Corbet’s film "The Brutalist" explores the odious and corrupt world of capital, ego and power which overwhelms an architect’s resources. (Focus Features)
Posted inFirst Person

Daniel Libeskind: Why ‘The Brutalist’ resonated so deeply with me as an architect

by Daniel Libeskind December 19, 2024December 19, 2024
"Esther Denouncing Haman" by Ernest Normand, 1888. 
The Heritage Foundation's Project Esther incorrectly references the Book of Esther as part of the Torah. (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inTheater

New Lehrhaus class will unpack opera’s fixation on Biblical tales

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller December 18, 2024December 18, 2024
a cluster of musicians play off to the side of a stage as a black and white film plays above them
Posted inMusic

Local musicians reanimate 1937 Yiddish horror film ‘The Dybbuk’ at JCCSF

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky December 17, 2024December 17, 2024
Matt Kirshen, who is part of this year's "Kung Pao Kosher Comedy" show, at the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley. (Dan Dion)
Posted inComedy

Annual ‘Kung Pao Kosher Comedy’ show in S.F. will laugh with host’s late ‘mamaleh’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi December 16, 2024December 18, 2024
“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

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