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Rabbi Shai Held delivers the keynote address at the Z3 Conference in Palo Alto, Nov. 5, 2023. (Shir Shelef/Courtesy Oshman Family JCC)
Posted inBooks

Visiting Bay Area, Rabbi Shai Held discusses how Jews can disagree, lovingly

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 11, 2024November 21, 2024
And old man sits smiling and holding a pair of drum sticks
Posted inMusic

Nothing can stop the 99-year-old drummer behind the Holocaust Survivor Band

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert November 8, 2024November 8, 2024
a man in a large colorful kippah plays guitar on stage
Posted inTheater

Israeli couple’s tragic story in Yemen comes to stage in S.F. with score by Oakland’s RebbeSoul

by Sue Fishkoff November 8, 2024November 10, 2024
Standup comedian Moshe Kasher will be performing in San Francisco from Nov. 20-23 at Punch Line comedy club. (Courtesy Punch Line)
Posted inComedy

Prodigal comedian Moshe Kasher, a man of many worlds, returns for Bay Area gigs

by Dan Pine November 6, 2024November 21, 2024
David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin) take a train to Majdanek while on a tour of Poland in “A Real Pain.” (Courtesy Searchlight Pictures)
Posted inFilm

‘A Real Pain’ is Jesse Eisenberg’s love letter to Poland, the country his family left under duress

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg November 4, 2024November 4, 2024
a woman playing violin and a man playing accordion on stage
Posted inMusic

Paintings and ‘Music of the Holocaust’ concert will mark Kristallnacht in East Bay

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 1, 2024November 1, 2024
a man with a mustache and beard grins menacingly as he holds up a skull inscribed all over with letters and numbers
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: Founder of Center for Monster Studies isn’t scared when the lights go down

by Sue Fishkoff October 30, 2024October 31, 2024
Meyers stands on stage holding a microphone
Posted inComedy

Is Seth Meyers Jewish? His wife, kids and jokes are.

Benyamin Cohen by Benyamin Cohen October 30, 2024October 30, 2024
and old woman holds up small artworks of a sun and a christmas tree
Posted inArt

For seniors at Campus for Jewish Living, art is solace, relief and ‘happy place’ 

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 29, 2024October 29, 2024
Trump shrugs while speaking at a lectern with the RJC logo on it
Posted inOpinion

The humorless cruelty of Trump supporters is an insult to the Jewish tradition of insult comedy

by Benjamin Ivry October 29, 2024October 29, 2024

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