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Israeli police arrest writer Ayelet Waldman at the Erez Crossing, April 26, 2024. (Photo/Emily Glick)
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Berkeley author Ayelet Waldman arrested during protest near Gaza border

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 26, 2024April 26, 2024
Detail from Frank Stella’s "Then came a dog and bit the cat." (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Skirball Cultural Center)
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That Passover song about the goat captivated a famous artist who wasn’t Jewish

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz April 25, 2024April 25, 2024
Rossi now and, on the cover of her memoir, during her time in high school (before being shipped out to Crown Heights). (Photo/She Writes Press)
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‘Hiya Rebbe!’ How a ‘lowly Orthodox,’ punk rock lesbian ended up in Hasidic Crown Heights

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar April 25, 2024April 25, 2024
Paul Canin, a retired architect and World War II veteran, at his floating home in the Berkeley Marina, May 11, 2023. This article was produced in partnership with Berkeleyside, which provided the photos. (Photo/Ximena Natera-Berkeleyside-CatchLight)
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With a brush made of his own hair, he painted to survive in a Nazi POW camp

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 24, 2024May 14, 2024
Trina Robbins (center) with Jan Duursema (left) and Carol Kalish on the "Women in Comics" panel at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con. (Photo/Alan Light CC BY 2.0)
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Trina Robbins, 85, the first woman to draw a full issue of ‘Wonder Woman’

by JTA and J. Staff April 24, 2024April 24, 2024
Anna Próchniak as Gita and Jonah Hauer-King as Lali in Peacock's "The Tattooist of Auschwitz." (Photo/Martin Mlaka-Sky UK)
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‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ tackles a Holocaust love story based on real events

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov April 22, 2024May 1, 2024
(From left) Daniel Thrasher, Michaela Watkins, Carol Kane, Henry Hall and Dan Bakkedahl in “Dinner with the Parents,” an American riff on the British Shabbat sitcom “Friday Night Dinner.” (Photo/Olly Courtney-CBS)
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‘Dinner with the Parents’: A Jewish sitcom from Britain gets remade in American suburbia

by Dan Friedman April 19, 2024April 19, 2024
Kara Yugoff (left) chats with Nila Rosen during a mob wife–themed mahjong pop-up at an Italian restaurant in San Francisco, March 13, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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‘Like poker night for women’: Younger generations are clicking with mahjong

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 18, 2024April 20, 2024
Detail of an illustration from "The Awful Omen," A. J. Sass's contribution to the "On All Other Nights" anthology. (Illustration/Shannon Hochman)
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Oakland writer A. J. Sass uses the afikomen hunt to explore a nonbinary child’s hopes and anxieties

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 17, 2024May 2, 2024
Italian soldiers stand guard in front of Israel's pavilion during the pre-opening of the Venice Biennale art show, on April 16, 2024 in Venice.  (Photo/JTA-Gabriel Bouys-AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel’s representative at Venice Biennale shuts down art exhibit, demanding ceasefire and hostage deal

by Andrew Lapin April 17, 2024

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