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Jack and Madeline Gilford, playwright Joe Gilford's parents. (Photo/Courtesy Joe Gilford)
Posted inCulture

‘Finks’ playwright bares family’s battles during ugly blacklist era

by Rob Gloster May 29, 2018May 29, 2018
Miriam Peretz (left) and Eliyahu Sills of the Ladino Project (Photo/Victoria Bahr)
Posted inCulture

Telling women’s stories through Ladino music and dance

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 29, 2018May 29, 2018
Rabbi Benay Lappe leading a May 22-23 SVARA workshop at Palo Alto JCC (Photo/Michael Kohn)
Posted inJewish Life

Chicago rabbi in Palo Alto: ‘Queer lens’ on Talmud could revitalize faith

Michael Kohn by Michael Kohn May 29, 2018May 29, 2018
Valerie Fenchel (Photo/Jordan Stein Photography)
Posted inJewish Life

She canceled her wedding and turned it into a fundraiser for abused women

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 29, 2018May 31, 2018
Gabriella Farber as Bella Cohen and Rita Petviashvili as Sarah Davis (Photo/Ivan Nikolaev)
Posted inCulture

Teen musical ‘Jeans!’ tells the essential SF Jewish immigrant story

by Rob Gloster May 28, 2018May 29, 2018
Anni Berkman (left) chats with Maayan Stanton at a 2017 event for first and third generation Holocaust survivors. (Photo/Michael Fox)
Posted inOpinion

What makes the Jewish Bay Area great, and how to make it greater

Rabbi Andrew Kastner by Rabbi Andrew Kastner May 27, 2018May 25, 2018
Michael Chabon at home in 2016 (Photo/Cathleen Maclearie)
Posted inNews

With talk of inmarriage and Israel, Chabon’s speech to new rabbis ruffled some feathers

Ben Sales by Ben Sales May 25, 2018May 29, 2018
In August, Rabbi Daniel Lehmann will take up the position of president of Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
Posted inNews

Rabbi Daniel Lehmann named Graduate Theological Union president

by J. Staff May 24, 2018May 24, 2018
Isadora Alman (Photo/Lori Eanes)
Posted inJewish Life

‘Ask Isadora’ about sex. She’s 78 years old, and she’s got answers.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 24, 2018May 25, 2018
Olivier Award winner Katie Brayben (Pearl) and Jonah Platt (Marty) in rehearsal for the world-premiere musical “A Walk on the Moon,” opening June 9 at ACT.
Posted inCulture

ACT’s sexy ‘Walk on the Moon’ a Jewish tour de force

by Rob Gloster May 24, 2018May 25, 2018

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