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Melissa Saxe Blaustein and David Saxe asked their wedding guests to donate to four Bay Area art institutions instead of giving traditional gifts. (Courtesy Radostina Boseva)
Posted inFirst Person

How we turned our wedding into a celebration of tzedakah

Melissa Blaustein (Courtesy)David Saxe (Courtesy) by Melissa Saxe Blaustein and David Saxe December 17, 2025December 17, 2025

From the moment Dave got down on one knee in our Sausalito home and sent Bowie, our chocolate Lab, racing up the stairs to me with a ring tied around […]

Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters face off outside of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, June 6, 2024. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
Posted inCulture

Protesters face off outside as art exhibit debuts at Contemporary Jewish Museum

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 7, 2024June 17, 2024
A crowd enjoys the music at a concert celebrating the late singer Jewlia Eisenberg in front of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Oct. 2, 2022. (Robbie Sweeny)
Posted inArt

‘Shabbat at the Jewseum’: New Saturday programs start at CJM in the fall

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 13, 2023July 18, 2023
Detail from "You Don’t Get to Know" by Terri Friedman, 2021. (Photo/Courtesy Friedman)
Posted inUncategorized

At CJM, a dense (and very pink) tapestry of joy and pain

by Merissa Nathan Gerson December 5, 2022January 3, 2023
antique photo of the couple seated together
Posted inCulture, On Stage, Theater

Grandmother’s refugee tale and love story inspire musical

max cherney by Max A. Cherney February 7, 2017March 23, 2018
two plain wall hangings: one is a blue rectangle with small red handwriting that says "hi Jewboy," the other is a yellow star of David that says "hi"
Posted inArt

‘Candyass’ artist plays on outsider theme to explore identity

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller January 23, 2017January 30, 2017
Posted inArt, Bay Area, Community

Reisbaum moves from Federation to Jewish museum

by J. Staff September 9, 2016February 11, 2017

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