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Joan Nathan at a National Yiddish Book Center event in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2011. (Photo/JTA-Dina Rudick-The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Posted inJewish Life

Joan Nathan, pioneering Jewish food maven, dishes all in her new autobiography

by Rachel Ringler April 15, 2024April 15, 2024
Nissim Black performs at the College of San Mateo, April 7, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inCulture

Rapper Nissim Black blesses crowd in first Bay Area show

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 12, 2024April 15, 2024
Lisa Kokin's "Red Line" will appear in the Contemporary Jewish Museum's upcoming California Jewish Open. (Photo/Courtesy Kokin)
Posted inLocal Voice

I’m an anti-Zionist Jewish artist who believes it’s important to stand with CJM

Lisa Kokin (Photo/Courtesy) by Lisa Kokin April 12, 2024April 12, 2024
A young Sasha Vasilyuk with her grandfather on a lake in Ukraine. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inBooks

San Francisco author’s debut novel reveals her Soviet grandfather’s secret

by Sue Fishkoff April 11, 2024May 2, 2024
Nan Fink Gefen and Rabbi Michael Lerner look over an early issue of Tikkun magazine in the 1980s. (Photo/File)
Posted inCulture

Tikkun magazine to close after nearly 40 years

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 10, 2024June 16, 2024
The seder plate at the Deadhead Seder at Terrapin Crossroads in 2018. (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inReligion

‘Let My People Pho!,’ and other nontraditional seders across the Bay Area

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 10, 2024April 10, 2024
“The West Grew Up in Levi’s” billboard, 1955. (Photo/Levi Strauss & Co. Archives)
Posted inCulture

Beyoncé’s ode to Levi’s Jeans is giving the brand a moment

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar April 10, 2024April 10, 2024
The pro-cease-fire mural at Lake Merritt in Oakland, as seen from a drone on April 7, 2024. (Photo/Courtesy SF Bay Activists for Peace)
Posted inArt

Mural calling to ‘end the war’ appears, then disappears, at Oakland’s Lake Merritt

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 9, 2024June 16, 2024
Julie Benko will perform in San Francisco on April 14. (Photo/John Carrington-American Traditions Vocal Collection)
Posted inMusic

Julie Benko, known for roles in ‘Fiddler’ and ‘Funny Girl’ on Broadway, brings her cabaret to S.F.

by Emma Goss April 9, 2024April 11, 2024
Amy Ettinger, shown with her husband Dan White, wrote about ice cream, mah-jongg and her mother's kugel recipe. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Dan White via X)
Posted inObituaries

Amy Ettinger, Santa Cruz writer who penned life-affirming essays on dying, succumbs to cancer at 49

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 9, 2024

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