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Magin, comic and mentalist Jay Alexander. (Photo/Steve Marshall)
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Q&A: Sleight-of-hand artist Jay Alexander plays ‘Mind Tricks’

by Liz Harris March 30, 2022

Jay Alexander plays mind tricks. The 53-year-old Sausalito resident discovered the art of magic as a boy, quickly became transfixed and pursued it as a career. Blending magic, mind-reading and […]

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The season of the Jewitch: Meet the occultists who blend witchcraft and Jewish folklore

by Rachel Román and JTA October 28, 2021
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Posted inTV & Film

How TV has embraced dybbuks, golems and other Jewish lore

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz May 21, 2021
An 1869 portrait of a fairy by Sophie Gengembre Anderson.
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My kids want to know: Are fairies real? Are Jedi? What about bats?

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein January 6, 2021
Jewlia Eisenberg leads a song at the JeWitch Collective’s “Song of Songs Seder Celebrating Queer Sexuality” in the yurt at Urban Adamah in Berkeley, May 19. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
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Magic, sex and blessings at an unconventional seder in Berkeley

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Victoria Hanna creates songs from modern and ancient Hebrew texts. (Photo/Eric Portman)
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