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Ben Wood shows a reimagined Jewish graveyard where a family member was buried that was destroyed in World War II at his home in San Francisco, Feb. 14, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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S.F. artist uses detailed, dreamlike animation to re-create family homes lost to Nazis

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 14, 2025February 14, 2025

What does it mean to visit a building that no longer exists? To honor the memory of his relatives killed in the Holocaust, and the places where they once lived, […]

George Fok’s “Passing Through” (2017), a multichannel video installation appearing at the Contemporary Jewish Museum as part of the "Experience Leonard Cohen" exhibit.
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Contemporary artists riff on Leonard Cohen’s music in new CJM exhibit

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert July 23, 2021July 22, 2021
Chad Coerver has been named executive director of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
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CJM taps Chad Coerver, longtime SFMOMA staffer, to be new executive director

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 21, 2021July 21, 2021
Artist Naomie Kremer giving a virtual tour of her painting exhibit “Embodiment” at Modernism in San Francisco, which closed temporarily due to the pandemic.
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Our Pandemic Year: Artists faced a choice — pivot or perish

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 15, 2021October 15, 2024
From "Prayer for Burnt Forests" by Julie Weitz, 2021, which will soon be featured at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (Photo/Aaron Farley)
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Contemporary Jewish Museum plans to reopen April 17

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 3, 2021March 4, 2021
"Projecting Light in a Time of Darkness," a video art installation at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, will be visible every night of Hanukkah. (Photos/Heidi Sanders)
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Historical light show illuminates Emanu-El for Hanukkah week

Laura Pall by Laura Paull December 15, 2020December 16, 2020
Poet Jake Marmer (right) recites his poetry at LABA's DRUNK event at the JCC East Bay in Berkeley, Nov. 23, 2019, accompanied by guitarist John Schott. (Photo/Pete Rosos)
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East Bay Jewish arts lab seeks 2021 fellows — pandemic or not

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 11, 2020November 13, 2020
Photo from the series “Black Matter, 2018” by Oxossi Ayofemi
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‘Black Matter’: an artist and a scientist look at the unseen in culture and cosmos

Laura Pall by Laura Paull August 8, 2018August 9, 2018
(From left) Israel's S.F.-based consul general Shlomi Kofman, SFPD Assistant Chief Toney Chaplin and City Engineer of Haifa Ariel Waterman (Photo/Laura Paull)
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From Bay to Bay: Pier 27 periscope brings Haifa into view, live

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 1, 2018June 11, 2018
Projectors inside the Haas-Lilienthal House will show a 15-minute looped display every night from 5 to 9:30 p.m. through the last week of November at 2007 Franklin St. in SF.
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Lavish S.F. house’s Jewish legacy comes alive in unique video-photo window display

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 24, 2017November 21, 2017

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