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“This Is Your Life” host Ralph Edwards with Hanna Bloch Kohner, May 27, 1953 (Photo/Courtesy Julie Kohner)
Posted inCulture

Sacramento exhibit features Jews who fled Nazis for Hollywood

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn September 15, 2017September 18, 2017
A-wa plays the Fillmore tonight, Aug. 4
Posted inThe Weekender

Yemenite music and wrapping up the SF Jewish film festival

by Liz Harris August 4, 2017March 17, 2023
Tayla Solomon and the "Lethal Ladies of BLSYW" in the film "Step." (Photo Courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures. © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation )
Posted inFilm

Ace producer takes another big ‘Step’ for tikkun olam

by Michael Fox August 1, 2017March 23, 2018
A scene from the digitally restored version of “Avanti Popolo,” a 1986 comical saga about the 1967 War
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

S.F. Jewish Film Fest packs Karl Marx, Al Gore, Hedy Lamarr and more into 17 days

by Liz Harris July 13, 2017March 23, 2018
a suspicious looking man in a dark hallway
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

German movie tells the true story of a plot that almost killed Hitler

by Tom Tugend July 3, 2017March 23, 2018
“Zander,” who fled from draconian anti-gay laws in his home country of Uganda, now resides in Berkeley. (Photo/Sophie Constantinou)
Posted inArt, Culture

These refugees are using objects to tell their tales of flight to the Bay Area

by Rob Gloster June 16, 2017June 16, 2017
Norman and Micha stand in a shop window looking at shoes
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

‘Norman’ digs at complicated dynamic between Israelis and U.S. Jews

by Michael Fox April 19, 2017March 23, 2018
the two men sit at a piano together singing in the sunshine
Posted inTalking With ..., Jewish Life

Q&A: An artist who brings pianos into the garden

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 18, 2017April 20, 2017
dan ariely
Posted inCulture, Film, TV & Film

Dishonesty explored on film, in person, at Marin JCC

by J. Staff March 7, 2017March 23, 2018
children run across a grassy field
Posted inCulture, Film, TV & Film

True story of young girl’s derring-do lifts Holocaust escape film

by Michael Fox February 23, 2017March 23, 2018

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