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Artist Ronit Shalem (left) with her artwork “I am CHANGE.” (Hillary Goidell)
Posted inArt

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 […]

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)
Posted inCulture

LABA’s latest artists showcase dares to touch on Jewish taboos

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 31, 2023October 31, 2023
Poet Jake Marmer (right) recites his poetry at LABA's DRUNK event at the JCC East Bay in Berkeley, Nov. 23, 2019, accompanied by guitarist John Schott. (Photo/Pete Rosos)
Posted inCulture

Jewish culture laboratory LABA gets a new home at the Firehouse in S.F.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten November 3, 2022June 25, 2024
Ava Sayaka Rosen's tarot cards on display at the LABAlive event, Nov. 7, 2021.
Posted inReligion

Pick a card, or let it pick you: Oakland artist Ava Sakaya Rosen’s Torah-inspired tarot deck 

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 3, 2021December 3, 2021
Joey Soloway and Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie during last year’s Dawn. (Screenshot)
Posted inReligion

All-night Shavuot arts festival features local and national talent

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 10, 2021July 21, 2021
seen from above, a woman strikes a dancer-like pose outside her house
Posted inCulture

Pandemic isolation fosters creativity for busy dancer and choreographer

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 4, 2020September 14, 2020
Writer Leora Fridman (left) responds to a project idea from dancer Katie Wong at the Asylum Arts retreat in Mill Valley, Nov. 11-14. (Stefan Cohen)
Posted inCulture

This artist retreat emphasizes that it’s a rich time for Jewish art in the Bay Area

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 26, 2019November 26, 2019
Sara Felder juggling and telling stories at LABA's DRUNK event at the East Bay JCC in Berkeley, Nov. 23, 2019. (Photo/Pete Rosos)
Posted inJew in the Pew

Getting drunk on Jewish texts and arts at LABA launch

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky November 25, 2019November 26, 2019
“Unite” (1971) by Barbara Jones-Hugu, from the exhibit “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power”
Posted inArt & About

Revisiting 1968 at the de Young; art, booze and sacred words in East Bay

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 14, 2019November 13, 2019
Gon Ben Ari performs at LABA New York in 2016. (Photo/Courtesy LABA)
Posted inCulture

NYC-based Jewish culture ‘lab’ expands to East Bay

Laura Pall by Laura Paull August 15, 2019August 15, 2019

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