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Jewish artists

Artist Ronit Shalem (left) with her artwork “I am CHANGE.” (Hillary Goidell)
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Wildfires, tides, landlines: A Jewish artists’ laboratory grapples with change

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz November 19, 2025December 15, 2025

Updated Dec. 15 From afar, it looks like charred wood has been framed and hung on a wall. Step closer, and the faint outline of a menorah reveals itself on […]

Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters face off outside of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, June 6, 2024. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
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Protesters face off outside as art exhibit debuts at Contemporary Jewish Museum

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 7, 2024June 17, 2024
"Horas Transparentes" by Georgina Reskala will appear in the Contemporary Jewish Museum's inaugural California Jewish Open. (Photo/Courtesy Reskala)
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CJM’s inaugural California Jewish Open exhibit couldn’t escape the war

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 24, 2024May 24, 2024
Lisa Kokin's "Red Line" will appear in the Contemporary Jewish Museum's upcoming California Jewish Open. (Photo/Courtesy Kokin)
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I’m an anti-Zionist Jewish artist who believes it’s important to stand with CJM

Lisa Kokin (Photo/Courtesy) by Lisa Kokin April 12, 2024April 12, 2024
The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, March 7, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Anti-Zionist Jewish artists pull out of CJM exhibit when demands are not met

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 5, 2024June 7, 2024
Boots Riley performing with his band The Coup at the Nakba-60 festival in downtown San Francisco in 2008. (Photo/Hossam el-Hamalawy via Flickr CC BY 2.0 DEED)
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Boots Riley and Hadar Cohen join artists’ call for cease-fire

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten November 2, 2023November 3, 2023
Excerpt from "If I Give You My Sorrows" by LABA choreographer Jo Kreiter, with dancers Natalya Shoaf, Sonshere Giles and Jhia Jackson (Photo/Jack Beutler)
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LABA’s latest artists showcase dares to touch on Jewish taboos

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 31, 2023October 31, 2023
The “California Modernist Women: Groundbreaking Creativity” exhibit at SFO (Photo/Courtesy SFO Museum)
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Before your flight, catch this SFO exhibit of midcentury art by California women

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 22, 2023March 29, 2023
From Rube Goldberg's Pulitzer Prize-winning his 1948 editorial cartoon "Peace Today"
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Rube Goldberg’s machines (and his politics) on display at CJM

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller March 13, 2018March 13, 2018

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