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Haaretz journalist Lee Yaron is the author of "10/7"
Posted inBooks

Haaretz journalist’s book brings ‘first person’ immediacy to accounts of Oct. 7

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi October 22, 2024November 21, 2024
a man in a suit in front of a microphone in a courtroom
Posted inFilm

New film recounts a Jew on trial in hyper-politically charged France of 1970s  

by Michael Fox October 21, 2024October 25, 2024
an image of a mosque, part photograph and part illustration, fractured down the middle
Posted inLocal Voice

Why was an S.F. Jewish Film Festival movie just banned in Israel?

Rebecca Pierce by Rebecca Pierce October 21, 2024October 21, 2024
Screenshot from "Another Body," an example of a film that used generative AI in an appropriate way, according to Rachel Antell. (Screenshot via YouTube)
Posted inTalking With ...

Will AI ruin documentaries? This Jewish filmmaker is trying to turn the tide against fake history

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 18, 2024October 18, 2024
Cover of "The Untold Story of Books"
Posted inBooks

Two local authors take readers behind the scenes of publishing

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 16, 2024November 21, 2024
Jeremy Piven in "The Performance." (Courtesy Sparks Go)
Posted inTV & Film

From dance to drama to docs, Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival wants you to watch

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 15, 2024October 21, 2024
black and white: a man in a suit stands next to a sign on a building that says "Berggruen"
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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.
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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

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