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(From left) Fabiana Santiago, Alice Wells, Brandon Graham, Juan Magacho, Jess DeFranco and Claire Fisher perform Alyssa Mitchel's "Regard." (Photo/Eric Raeber)
Posted inUncategorized

Inspired by Buber, this choreographer is transforming a CJM gallery with a dance experiment

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert July 21, 2023August 24, 2023
“Remembering Gene Wilder” was the opening film of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival at the Castro Theater, July 20, 2023. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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PHOTOS: Applause for Gene Wilder and Hollywood strikes at SFJFF opening night

by J. Staff July 21, 2023July 21, 2023
Director Susan Stern and her daughter Nora playing with Barbies around the time "Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour" came out 25 years ago. (Photo/Courtesy Stern)
Posted inLocal Voice

When I made a Barbie movie 25 years ago, I didn’t realize she (and I) were in a closet

Susan Stern by Susan Stern July 21, 2023July 21, 2023
Jim Caviezel (right) stars in "Sound of Freedom," a surprise summer blockbuster that plays into antisemitism QAnon conspiracies.
Posted inFilm

Surprise blockbuster ‘Sound of Freedom’ echoes antisemitic QAnon conspiracies

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov July 21, 2023July 21, 2023
In a key scene in "Oppenheimer," the physicist embarrasses Strauss before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, prompting Strauss’ crusade to humiliate Oppenheimer. (Photo/Courtesy NBC Universal)
Posted inFilm

At the core of ‘Oppenheimer,’ a debate about how to be Jewish

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar July 19, 2023
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)
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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)
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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)
Posted inFrom the Archives

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

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