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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
five men in WWII-era US Army combat uniforms work together to erect a flagpole atop a pile of rubble
Posted inPhotography

San Francisco getting a block named for famed Iwo Jima photographer Joe Rosenthal

Aaron Levy-Wolins by Aaron Levy-Wolins November 26, 2024December 12, 2024
The 1902 funeral of Rabbi Jacob Joseph (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBooks

How the biggest antisemitic riot in America transformed Jewish history 

by Benjamin Ivry November 26, 2024November 26, 2024
two younger men sit on a train
Posted inFilm

In ‘A Real Pain,’ tourists bring their own miseries to Holocaust sites

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky November 25, 2024November 26, 2024
A painting of a gladiator, clad in gold, standing over his defeated opponent. He looks up at the crowd, many of whom hold their hands up in the thumbs-down sign.
Posted inFilm

There aren’t Jewish fighters in Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II.’ But what about in ancient Rome?

by Luke Tress November 25, 2024November 25, 2024

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