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Reider sits playing the accordion. The album cover is superimposed to his left.
Posted inMusic

Oakland composer Sam Reider puts Jewish folklore’s most famous monster to music 

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert August 23, 2024September 23, 2024
Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane in "Between the Temples"
Posted inTV & Film

‘Between the Temples’ director’s biggest (and most Jewish) film yet is built on chaos

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 19, 2024August 19, 2024
An exhibit on the artwork and life story of Ary Arcadie Lochakov is on display in the San Francisco Ferry Building. (David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inCulture

He died in the Holocaust. Then his artwork appeared on a bench in San Francisco. Now it will head to Paris.

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 16, 2024August 20, 2024
The cover of the Yiddish edition of the second Harry Potter book
Posted inBooks

As the second Yiddish Harry Potter book arrives, J.K. Rowling is she who must not be named

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar August 14, 2024August 14, 2024
A viral visual Hebrew pun on Kamala Harris' name, among other new merchandise, is resonating with Jewish Democrats. (Design by Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inCulture

Kamala Harris’ Hebrew merch is taking shape — in the form of a punctuation mark

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg August 14, 2024August 14, 2024
Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg's “The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism” represents what one admirer calls a “culmination of a lifetime of theological reflection.” (University of Nebraska Press/Jewish Publication Society)
Posted inUncategorized

At 91, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg writes the ‘big book’ his admirers had been waiting for 

by Andrew Silow-Carroll August 13, 2024August 13, 2024
a classical painting of The Temple with smoke rising from it and a chaotic crowd within it
Posted inReligion

In first Tisha B’Av after Oct. 7, Jewish writers, musicians, and lay leaders compose new liturgy and traditions to mourn a fresh tragedy

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg August 12, 2024August 12, 2024
an illustration of a man standing with a city in flames behind him
Posted inCulture

A film about the destruction of the Second Temple premiered in 2021. Oct. 7 gives it new resonance.

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg August 9, 2024August 9, 2024
Adolf Hitler speaks in the Lustgarten in Berlin during the Reich presidential election on April 4, 1932. (German Federal Archives/Wikimedia Commons)
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A historian describes the lessons learned — and ignored — from Hitler’s rise to power

by Andrew Silow-Carroll August 8, 2024August 8, 2024
"Joseph Maketh Himself Known to His Brethren" by James Tissot, ca. 1900
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Why we use paintings by Catholic artist James Tissot with our Torah column

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 7, 2024August 7, 2024

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