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SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher, in sunglasses, and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland join protestors on strike in Los Angeles on July 14, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Valerie Macon-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

SAG strike puts its brash Jewish president, Fran Drescher, squarely in the spotlight

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg July 19, 2023
Kaia Berman-Peters, currently on leave from a music program offered jointly by Harvard University and the New England Conservatory of Music, plans to record her first Kleztronica album this summer. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Berman-Peters)
Posted inUncategorized

Kleztronica: How a 22-year-old with a sampler and a vision is pioneering a new genre in music

by Jon Kalish July 18, 2023July 18, 2023
Rabbi Tamar Manasseh speaks at her ordination at Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in Chicago, July 2021. (Photo/Courtesy Brad Rothschild)
Posted inTV & Film

In ‘Rabbi on the Block,’ meet the first woman to become a Hebrew Israelite rabbi

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 17, 2023February 15, 2024
Fran Drescher speaks at the 2018 Arizona Ultimate Women's Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo/Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inOpinion

Why Fran Fine — sorry, Fran Drescher — is the Jewish union queen we all needed

Mira Fox by Mira Fox July 17, 2023July 17, 2023
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival co-directors Deborah Kaufman and Janis Plotkin in 1991 on the balcony of the Castro Theatre. (Photo/File)
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Wilder, Abzug, Vishniac: How we covered S.F. Jewish Film Fest headliners over the years

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 14, 2023July 14, 2023
A crowd enjoys the music at a concert celebrating the late singer Jewlia Eisenberg in front of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Oct. 2, 2022. (Robbie Sweeny)
Posted inArt

‘Shabbat at the Jewseum’: New Saturday programs start at CJM in the fall

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 13, 2023July 18, 2023
Helen Mirren and co-star Lior Ashkenazi (left) attend a press conference ahead of the Israeli premiere of the movie "Golda" in Jerusalem on July 13, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inTV & Film

Helen Mirren plays Golda Meir in a new film. The two are also (kind of) related.

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer July 13, 2023July 13, 2023
a young woman holds up american and israeli flags made from construction paper
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Were young American Jews lied to about Israel? A new documentary says yes

Mira Fox by Mira Fox July 12, 2023July 14, 2023
Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck's "I Like it Here" is screening as part of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
Posted inCulture

‘I Like It Here’: In S.F. Jewish Film Fest gem, an aging filmmaker reflects on mortality 

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz July 11, 2023August 4, 2023
Jonah Hill in "You People"
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Jonah Hill’s therapy-speak exposes the dark side of the Nice Jewish Boy

Mira Fox by Mira Fox July 11, 2023July 11, 2023

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