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Tupac Shakur (left) met Leila Steinberg when he was a 17-year-old senior at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley. She managed him from 1989 to 1993. (Photo/Kathy Crawford)
Posted inMusic

‘Dear Mama’: Leila Steinberg, Tupac’s first manager, sees new docuseries as a chance to heal

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 9, 2023June 22, 2023
Two young women, one standing and one sitting, smile for the camera.
Posted inCulture

Talking Jews and Asians in pop culture with The LUNAR Collective

Erin Ben-Moche and Esther D. Kustanowitz by The Bagels May 8, 2023May 8, 2023
“The Scottsboro Boys" has a nearly all-Black cast and uses the structure of a minstrel show as a narrative device to expose the racism of white Southerners. (Photo/42nd Street Moon)
Posted inTheater

‘Scottsboro Boys’: Kander and Ebb’s musical about racism and injustice playing in S.F.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 5, 2023May 11, 2023
Rabbi Michael Wolk stands in his rabbi-character costume outside the production trailers for "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret," which filmed in his synagogue, Temple Israel of Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photos/Courtesy Michael Wolk, Louis Davidson)
Posted inFilm

Meet the real-life rabbi in the synagogue scene of ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA May 4, 2023
Aleeza (left) and Ori in "Jewish Matchmaking." (Photo/Courtesy Netflix)
Posted inTV & Film

In ‘Jewish Matchmaking,’ diverse Jews experience Orthodox dating practices

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA May 3, 2023
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)
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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

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