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Detail of the cover of "Long Island Compromise" by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. (Random House)
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Must Jews be defined by trauma? New novel offers a surprising answer

Mira Fox by Mira Fox July 10, 2024July 10, 2024
From left: Margo (Suzanna Papian) and Amitay (Adir Milller) in "The Monkey House." (SFJFF)
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S.F. Jewish Film Festival: Israeli comedy ‘The Monkey House’ exudes ’80s nostalgia

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss July 9, 2024July 10, 2024
Security guard Frank Collins confronts NAG protester Marvis Saunders at Glen Echo Amusement Park on June 30, 1960. (Courtesy SFJFF)
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S.F. Jewish Film Festival: ‘Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round’ revisits first Black-Jewish civil rights protest

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 8, 2024July 12, 2024
"Shari & Lamb Chop" is the opening night selection of this year's San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. (Courtesy SFJFF)
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S.F. Jewish Film Festival 2024: New venues, new voices and a guest festival director

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 3, 2024July 12, 2024
Claude Rains wears a tricorn and a tallis as Haym Salomon in a still from "Sons of Liberty" from 1939. (Screenshot)
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Saluting Jewish founding father Haym Salomon this Independence Day

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 3, 2024July 3, 2024
Bettina Farack, a research fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, speaks about the Library of Lost Books initiative during a launch event in Berlin in November 2023. (Courtesy Weiner Library)
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Amateur detectives are invited to join search for a lost Jewish library looted by the Nazis

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov July 3, 2024July 3, 2024
Rabbi David Minkus (left) leads a discussion at Mercaz, a community programming initiative of Congregation Rodfei Zedek in Chicago's Hyde Park. In June 2024 Minkus released "A Leaflet Drops in Shul," a podcast about his handling of an anti-Zionist congregant's actions. (Courtesy of Mercaz)
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‘A Leaflet Drops in Shul’: New podcast explores anti-Zionism at a Chicago synagogue

by Andrew Lapin July 2, 2024July 2, 2024
Kinky Friedman
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Kinky Friedman, singer and novelist who fronted the Texas Jewboys, dies at 79

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 1, 2024July 1, 2024
A group of schoolchildren read a news magazine in "June Zero," a new film depicting the Eichmann trial's reception in Israel. (Courtesy Cohen Media Group)
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‘June Zero’: Film dramatizes Adolf Eichmann’s trial through the eyes of Israelis adjacent to it

by Stephen Silver July 1, 2024July 1, 2024
Elissa Strauss (Photo/Laura Turbow Photography)
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Oakland author celebrates the ‘Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others’

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 28, 2024July 31, 2024

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