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Writer Alice Walker pauses during an interview with the Associated Press in Gaza City, March 10, 2009. (Photo/RNS-AP Photo-Tara Todras-Whitehill)
Posted inOpinion

This isn’t the first time Alice Walker has been disinvited

Rabbi Avi Shafran by Rabbi Avi Shafran and RNS April 4, 2022April 4, 2022
Audrey Hepburn at Horn & Hardart, an automat chain that is the subject of the documentary "The Automat."
Posted inFilm

‘The Automat’ documentary with Mel Brooks and RBG opens; Celebrating Italian Jewish food; etc.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 29, 2022March 30, 2022
Alice Walker at the "The Color Purple" Broadway opening night in New York City, Dec. 10, 2015. (Photo/JTA-Mark Sagliocco-Getty Images)
Posted inBooks

Alice Walker, author who has courted controversy about Jews, disinvited by Bay Area Book Festival

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 25, 2022February 12, 2024
Yael Bridge is the director of "The Big Scary 'S' Word" and forthcoming documentary on the Jews of Cuba.
Posted inTV & Film

‘The Big Scary ‘S’ Word’: Oakland filmmaker taps into zeitgeist with socialism documentary

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 25, 2022March 30, 2022
a woman in a face mask stands in an airport with an unidentified man and three luggage carts piled high with luggage
Posted inNews

56 suitcases and a ticket to Warsaw: One Bay Area woman’s Ukraine relief effort

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward March 24, 2022
A line of people stand near the Ukraine border
Posted inNews

Hebrew Free Loan offers cash assistance to Bay Area residents with family in Ukraine

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 23, 2022March 23, 2022
Roman Vishniac holding the cover image of his book, "A Vanished World," New York, 1982. (Photo/The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Magnes receives $1 million gift for Vishniac archive project

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 23, 2022March 23, 2022
Bagels from Loveski, a new "Jew-ish" deli in Napa. (Photo/loveskideli.com)
Posted inSmall Bites

‘Jew-ish’ deli opens in Napa; local alum gets big post at Bon Appétit

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 22, 2022March 24, 2022
An Israeli filmmaker named Y (Avshalom Pollak) makes a series of radical decisions in the movie "Ahed's Knee," written and directed by Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid. (Photo/Courtesy Kino Lorber)
Posted inCulture

‘Ahed’s Knee’: Fictional director does battle with Israel’s culture ministry in provocative new film

by Andrew Lapin and JTA March 22, 2022March 22, 2022
One of the Nazi stickers placed in public in Fairfax in Nov. 2020 (Screenshot/Instagram @noahthamack)
Posted inCalifornia

New Assembly bill would expand hate crimes law, equalize penalties 

by Sam Ribakoff March 22, 2022May 25, 2022

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