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David Broza (Photo/Gil Lavi)
Posted inMusic

Israeli musician David Broza plans to play, not preach, at solo S.F. show

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 21, 2024June 8, 2024
Rabbi Jill Hausman of the Actors' Temple in New York appears on “Saturday Night Live” on May 18, 2024. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inTV

Meet Jill Hausman, the real rabbi who grimaced through jokes about Jews on SNL’s ‘Weekend Update’

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg May 20, 2024
The new "Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital" exhibit opens Sunday at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Photo/JTA-Josh White, JWPictures-Academy Museum Foundation)
Posted inCulture

L.A.’s Academy Museum initially excluded Hollywood’s Jewish origins. A new exhibit on Jewish film pioneers fixes that.

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis May 17, 2024May 21, 2024
Orion Stone performs at "Truth and Remembrance" at the Piedmont Center for the Arts, May 15, 2024. (Photo/Julie Reichle for The Piedmont Exedra)
Posted inCulture

In East Bay, candles, video and music recall lives lost in Israel

by Sue Fishkoff May 16, 2024May 21, 2024
Gratz Cohen grew up in a slaveholding Jewish family in Georgia and fought for the Confederacy. (Photo/Courtesy Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation State Historic Site)
Posted inOff the Shelf

S.F. author reckons with Southern Jews’ slave ownership in ‘Liberty Street’

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 15, 2024May 16, 2024
"Before It Goes Dark" will be performed in San Francisco on May 22. (Photo/Verismo Communications)
Posted inOn Stage

‘Before It All Goes Dark’: Newspaper article about Nazi-looted art inspires opera coming to S.F.

by Howard Reich May 14, 2024May 15, 2024
Eden Golan performs for Israel at the Eurovision Grand Final, May 11, 2024. (Photo/Sarah Louise Bennett-EBU)
Posted inMusic

Israel’s Eden Golan places fifth at the Eurovision Song Contest

Talya Zax by Talya Zax May 13, 2024May 13, 2024
A screenshot of the viral "Is your fav author a zionist" Google spreadsheet shows some of the reasons that the document's creators deemed writers pro- and anti-Israel. (Screenshot)
Posted inBooks

‘Is your fav author a zionist???’: Viral list reignites antisemitism fears in the literary world

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer May 10, 2024
Drake performs at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto in 2016. (Photo/Flickr-The Come Up Show CC BY-ND 2.0)
Posted inFirst Person

Drake lost the Great Rap War of 2024 — and so did Jews

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 9, 2024May 13, 2024
Eden Golan, rehearsing “Hurricane” at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden. (Photo/Sarah Louise Bennett-European Broadcasting Union)
Posted inMusic

Eden Golan’s impossible mission — conquer Eurovision and redefine Israel’s image

Talya Zax by Talya Zax May 9, 2024

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