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Oakland Tech senior Madds Dittmer (right, with Alex Mayr) wrote, directed and acts in an episode of a miniseries that will premiere May 19 on YouTube. (Photo/Ari Arroyo)
Posted inTV & Film

Trans Jewish teen from Oakland puts their reality on film

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 2, 2023June 5, 2023
Micaela Diamond and Ben Platt during the opening night curtain call for "Parade" at New York City Center, Nov. 1, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Bruce Glikas-WireImage-GettyImages)
Posted inTheater

‘Parade’ and ‘Leopoldstadt’ each nab 6 Tony nominations in a big year for Jewish Broadway

by Andrew Lapin and JTA May 2, 2023May 2, 2023
Does anyone know where Bo, Grogu and Din can find a kosher mikvah?
Posted inThe Bagel Report

What’s so Jewish about ‘The Mandalorian’?

Erin Ben-Moche and Esther D. Kustanowitz by The Bagels May 1, 2023
Or Bareket will appear at the Black Cat in San Francisco May 11-13. (Photo/Maria Jarzyna)
Posted inMusic

Multi-dimensional Israeli bassist Or Bareket coming to S.F.’s Black Cat

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert May 1, 2023May 1, 2023
Author and Rabbi Harold Kushner is pictured with his best-selling book, "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," in 2001. (Photo/JTA-Ron Bull-Toronto Star via Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of ‘When Bad Things Happen to Good People,’ dies at 88

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer, Ben Harris and JTA May 1, 2023May 1, 2023
A surrealist 1937 WPA mural (left) by Reuben Kadish (right) has been restored and is on view in San Francisco.
Posted inCulture

A surrealist WPA mural in S.F. by Jewish artist Reuben Kadish has been restored

by Julie Zigoris and San Francisco Standard April 28, 2023
Judy Blume reads letters from young readers in "Judy Blume Forever." (Photo/Courtesy Prime Video)
Posted inFilm

‘Judy Blume Forever’: New doc proves iconic author has always been a mensch

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent April 27, 2023April 27, 2023
Singer and actor Harry Belafonte in a recording studio, circa 1957. (Photo/JTA-Hulton Archive-Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Harry Belafonte, singer and civil rights activist who popularized ‘Hava Nagila’ in the US, dies at 96

by Lisa Keys and JTA April 26, 2023April 26, 2023
Kevin Janssens as Noah in "Rough Diamonds." (Photo/Netflix-Nyk Dekeyser)
Posted inTV

Netflix’s ‘Rough Diamonds’ brings viewers into the drama of Antwerp’s Orthodox diamond district

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA April 25, 2023
the covers of all three Jewish Catalogs
Posted inOpinion

‘The Jewish Catalog’ reimagined for a ‘disrupted’ world

by Rabbi Michael Strassfeld April 24, 2023

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