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Etgar Keret speaks with Ira Glass
Posted inBooks

In S.F., Israeli writer Etgar Keret unfolds stories about ‘my dead mom’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 4, 2025November 4, 2025

On a bus ride out of Tel Aviv one summer, Israeli writer Etgar Keret told American podcaster Ira Glass a story about his late mother. It was so moving that […]

Frank London's “Ghetto Songs” will drop on April 19, coinciding with the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.  (Photo/P. Romo)
Posted inMusic

All the world is a ghetto in Frank London’s ambitious new solo album

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert April 14, 2021
Andrew Bering as Israel Lichtenstein in “Who Will Write Our History” (Photo/Courtesy Anna Wloch-JFI)
Posted inFilm

Warsaw Ghetto doc screenings on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 24, 2019January 23, 2019
Jowita Budnik as Rachel Auerbach, one of only three members of the secret Oyneg Shabes group to survive (Photo/Courtesy Anna Wloch-JFI)
Posted inFilm

The secret society that documented truth of the Warsaw Ghetto

by Rob Gloster July 13, 2018July 23, 2018
A memorial at the site of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Photo/Robinn Magid)
Posted inBay Area, World, Jewish Life, News

Back to the source: genealogy gathering goes to Poland

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 11, 2018July 11, 2018
Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto
Posted inColumns, Religion, Jewish Life, Torah

An ode to those who outwit tyrants

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan June 28, 2018
Posted inColumns

What makes a hero? It takes all kinds

by Sue Fishkoff April 18, 2013February 3, 2017

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