July 31, 2009 | by rachel leibold
 It seems like every couple of months there's something new from Jewish comic legend Will Eisner arriving in our newsroom mailbox. Of course, none of it is actually new, but since 2005 W.W. Norton and Co. has been reprinting Eisner's works…
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July 29, 2009 | by rachel leibold
In last week's paper I gave a rather glowing review to a documentary called "Lady Kul el-Arab," which is playing in the S.F. Jewish Film Festival. It hasn't shown yet in the festival (its first screening is tomorrow at the Castro Theatre), but if you want to get…
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July 29, 2009 | by michael lazarus
The 18th Maccabiah Games are over and a couple great, local stories came out of Israel.
Team USA finished second in the overall medal count (84 gold, 92 silver, and 79 bronze), behind Israel (239 G 216 S, 173 B) and ahead…
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July 27, 2009 | by samuel raphael franco
Part II:
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July 27, 2009 | by rachel leibold
(Apologies for not getting this up on Friday - I wish I could say it was because I was at Comic-Con, but the truth is that some technical difficulties on Friday afternoon prevented me from publishing. If you're reading this, it's working again!) We're back with Neil Kleid, talking about…
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July 21, 2009 | by michael lazarus
The first week of the Maccabiah Games could not have gone much better for Team USA. In the first full week since competition began on July 12, Americans have grabbed a combined 82 medals (25 gold, 26 silver, 31 bronze).
A couple…
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July 21, 2009 | by emily savage
While Beastie Boy Adam Yauch (MCA) has battled-rapped with the best of them, he's now in for the fiercest battle of his life - news broke yesterday that the hip hop Heeb is fighting a cancerous tumor in his salivary gland. Such sad…
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July 20, 2009 | by samuel raphael franco
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July 17, 2009 | by rachel leibold
Neil Kleid is a Xeric award-winning cartoonist and writer whose new graphic novel, "The Big Kahn," is coming out this month from NBM. "The Big Kahn," written by Kleid and illustrated by Nicolas Cinquegrani, is the story of an Orthodox family whose world is turned upside down by the revelation…
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July 17, 2009 | by samuel raphael franco
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July 17, 2009 | by emily savage
Sometimes anti-Semitism is anti-Semitism, and sometimes a Nazi gnome is just a Nazi gnome: "Germany Opens Nazi Gnome Case"
A stab at art, or a stab in the Jewish heart? Thoughts?
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July 15, 2009 | by emily savage
(From left: unidentified baby, brother Mathew, mommy holding baby Emily) I've moved more than 10 times since I left the loving homestead of my youth at age 18. I've lived with dorm-mates, best friends, boyfriends, and a few crazies I'd like to forget. …
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July 13, 2009 | by samuel raphael franco
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July 10, 2009 | by rachel leibold
Ever since I started following the ComicBook411 Twitter feed, I've been significantly more up-to-date on my comix news (and particularly movies-based-on-comix news). But I had to laugh at this headline that appeared on my Twitter homepage yesterday: "Judge Ruled Warner Bros. Must Make New 'Superman' Movie…
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July 10, 2009 | by samuel raphael franco
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July 8, 2009 | by emily savage
When a 13-year-old receives an Ipod touch for his or her B'nai Mitzvah, the extent of their use will most likely include downloading music and videos then popping in the ear buds. Not Ari Weinstein - he hacked into the gift a few…
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July 7, 2009 | by samuel raphael franco
The Israeli town, of Metula, on the Lebanese Border gets on less than a centimeter of precipitation in an average year. Snowfall is more of a once in a decade phenomenon. The town is home to about 1400 inhabitants and was a War Zone numerous times in the…
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July 6, 2009 | by emily savage
It was a simcha - of the grandest tradition. It also marked my triumphant (minor and meek?) return to the temple, after so many years - so many in fact, that I do not wish to share the actual number in this forum. Let us instead focus on the simcha…
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July 6, 2009 | by samuel raphael franco
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July 3, 2009 | by rachel leibold
Happy Fourth of July, comix fans! If you're in the U.S., I hope you have the day off - or at least have tomorrow set aside for barbecuing and eating red-white-and-blue sheet cake (I know I do!). Shomer Shabbos? The best fireworks start after dark! ![captain_america_320]()
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July 2, 2009 | by elizabeth katzki
My family’s kitchen table has always donned at least one copy of the Jewish Bulletin/J. alongside the San Francisco Chronicle, and from the moment I could read, I picked up the Jewish Bulletin first.
I have grown up reading the J. and remember the transition from Jewish Bulletin…
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July 2, 2009 | by elizabeth katzki
I should have known that a trip advertised on the side of my Facebook page would not be what it seemed, but it just looked so enticing. How could I not take advantage of a trip to New York (everything but the flight) for only two hundred dollars? I decided…
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July 2, 2009 | by rachel leibold
No, this blog isn't about Karl Malden - although I still maintain that anyone with a shnozz like that had to be at least partly Jewish. Actually, it's about Jeff Goldblum - the hottest nerdy Jew on the face of the Earth. (In my opinion, of course.) Last week, death-happy…
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July 1, 2009 | by samuel raphael franco
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