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Orion Stone performs at "Truth and Remembrance" at the Piedmont Center for the Arts, May 15, 2024. (Photo/Julie Reichle for The Piedmont Exedra)
Posted inCulture

In East Bay, candles, video and music recall lives lost in Israel

by Sue Fishkoff May 16, 2024May 21, 2024
This pro-Israel canine attended a rally demanding Hamas release hostages the Israeli hostages held in Gaza at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco, Oct. 12, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inUncategorized

Looking back on 2023: Northern California Jewish life in photos

Aaron Levy-Wolins by Aaron Levy-Wolins December 26, 2023December 26, 2023
A crowd of some 200-300 people demand Hamas release hostages at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco, Oct. 13, 2023. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inBay Area

This Week in Photos: Bay Area Jews gather and grieve

by J. Staff October 13, 2023October 18, 2023
The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (Photo/Gary Sexton)
Posted inPhotography

‘Art can offer some comfort’: Local Jewish cultural orgs look to provide respite from Israel news

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten October 13, 2023October 16, 2023
A jazzy door in Kikar Hamusica (Music Square) on Yoel Moshe Salomon Street in downtown Jerusalem, where the shops, restaurants and a museum are devoted to music. (Photo/Rachel Fisher)
Posted inIsrael

Check out 15 of the coolest doors in Israel

by Rachel Fisher September 28, 2023September 28, 2023
Amy Winehouse in 2004. (Photo/JTA-Paul Bergen-Redferns-Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

10 Jewish Amy Winehouse moments (and photos) from a new book on her life

by Mira Zylali September 5, 2023
Rainbow Gathering photographed at Modoc National Forest, California, July 4, 1984. Appearing at CJM as part of a retrospective of the work of Jay Blakesberg. (Photo/Jay Blakesberg)
Posted inCulture

‘Those artists were rebels’: Bay Area photographer Jay Blakesberg gets rockin’ retrospective at CJM

by Dan Pine August 28, 2023August 29, 2023
Herbert Sussan, seen here in Nagasaki in 1946, later said in an oral history, “All of us were absolutely stunned, and nobody could believe it was one bomb.” (Photo/Courtesy Leslie Sussan)
Posted inPhotography

Her father documented the devastation at Nagasaki and Hiroshima — now she’s considered an honorary second-generation survivor

by Jon Kalish August 9, 2023
A photograph by Roman Vishniac, subject of the new documentary "Vishniac," which is screening as part of the 2023 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
Posted inCulture

‘Vishniac’: At S.F. Jewish Film Fest, unflinching documentary shines light on famed photographer

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz July 6, 2023July 21, 2023
"Slater with the Trump mask," 2019 by Gillian Laub
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Gillian Laub turns camera on her Trump-loving family in CJM exhibit

by Dan Pine September 29, 2022October 12, 2022

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