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black and white: a man in a suit stands next to a sign on a building that says "Berggruen"
Posted inArt

He left Berlin with 10 marks in his pocket, went to UC Berkeley — and came back with an art collection worth hundreds of millions

by Mervyn Rothstein October 15, 2024October 15, 2024
"Why does the pig matter?" Jordan Rosenblum asks in, "Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig." (Steve Evans/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBooks

From snout to tail, a 3,000-year history of Jews and the pig

by Andrew Silow-Carroll October 14, 2024February 14, 2025
A bronze statue of Columbus
Posted inOpinion

Columbus may have had Jewish heritage — that doesn’t mean he was Jewish

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar October 14, 2024October 14, 2024
Images released by the U.S. Department of Justice from a 16th-century book belonging to the Budapest University of Jewish Studies, which disappeared for 80 years following the Nazi invasion of Hungary.
Posted inBooks

Judaica seller signs deal with feds to return Nazi-looted 16th-century Bible to Budapest seminary

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev October 10, 2024October 10, 2024
Composite of the artist with two of her most famous paintings. (Courtesy Tamara de Lempicka Estate)
Posted inArt

Film and de Young exhibit introduce audiences to an Art Deco icon with a complicated Jewish identity

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 9, 2024October 10, 2024
"The Tunnel," one of the pieces included in Simcha Toledano Moyal's "The Scream"
Posted inBooks

‘The Scream’ amplifies Israeli voices sharing their pain through poetry, art, prose

by Sue Fishkoff October 4, 2024November 21, 2024
a woman leans over a man's arm with a tattoo gun
Posted inArt

Local tattoo artists traveled to Israel to give Oct. 7 survivors ‘healing ink’

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb October 2, 2024October 4, 2024
a man stands arms akimbo in front of a large mural of a yellow ribbon
Posted inLocal Voice

A tale of two street murals about the Israel-Hamas war

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten October 1, 2024October 1, 2024
a book with hebrew text lies amid rubble
Posted inPhotography

Photojournalist Ziv Koren’s up-close photos of Oct. 7 horrors coming to Bay Area

Laura Pall by Laura Paull September 30, 2024October 1, 2024
a group of young adults sit around a table outside smiling
Posted inFilm

In Netflix’s ‘Kissufim,’ a story about Israeli life on the Gaza border gains new resonance after Oct. 7

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg September 30, 2024September 30, 2024

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