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The Berkeley Community Chorus & Orchestra performs. (Bill Hocker/Courtesy BCCO)
Posted inMusic

Berkeley premiere sings a requiem for the dead of Terezín

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert May 20, 2026May 26, 2026

Composer Michael Schachter has been thinking about Terezín for the past 15 years. Growing up as a music-minded black sheep in a sports-obsessed Reform family where the guiding patriarchs were […]

Isaac Zones and Shamati are featured on J.'s Spotify list for Hanukkah. (Courtesy)
Posted inHanukkah

25 songs from local musicians to light up your Hanukkah nights

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb December 1, 2025December 10, 2025
Eli Roth plays Andrew Finkelstein in HBO's "The Idol." (Photo/Eddy Chen-HBO)
Posted inTV

Is ‘The Idol’ good for Hollywood Jews or ‘torture porn’?

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar June 6, 2023June 6, 2023
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (Photo/Dario Acosta)
Posted inMusic

Oaklander explores the ‘revolution’ of cantorial music

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert March 2, 2022March 5, 2024
(Photo/Flickr-enki22 CC BY-ND 2.0)
Posted inHigh Holidays

Together again! This High Holidays, our choir was truly magical.

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent September 22, 2021September 29, 2021
(Photo/Flickr-enki22 CC BY-ND 2.0)
Posted inAct Two

I’m tired of singing alone. Bring on the whole-iness of choirs!

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent June 7, 2021
UC Berkeley law student Sara Caplan's pandemic hobby is performing in live online Shakespeare readings.
Posted inBay Area

From music to cooking, pandemic hobbies uncork creativity

by Dan Pine December 1, 2020December 6, 2020
A view of the old Tower Records in New York City, Aug. 2005. (Photo/JTA-Peter Kramer-Getty Images)
Posted inNorthern California, News

Tower Records founder Russ Solomon of Sacramento dies at 92

by JTA March 6, 2018
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
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, 2006 (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inMusic

Israel Philharmonic to play Oct. 31 in S.F.

by Rob Gloster July 31, 2017July 31, 2017

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