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Dan Schifrin

Dan Schifrin

Daniel Schifrin, a local teacher and writer, is writing a play about medieval Jewish Spain as a LABA Fellow at the JCC East Bay.

Emma Mayerson
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Early lessons in philanthropy inspired her to create this group for teen girls

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin October 18, 2021

When Emma Mayerson was a teen growing up in Berkeley, she wasn’t quite sure how she fit in Jewishly. “I wasn’t necessarily the Jew that went to camp, or was […]

Dan Schifrin and daughter Elia overlooking the Spanish city of Toledo.
Posted inFirst Person

I had unfinished business in Spain, going back 500 years

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin January 2, 2020January 7, 2020
Richard Benjamin, right, as Alexander Portnoy in a 1972 film adaptation of "Portnoy's Complaint." Lee Grant, on left, played Portnoy's mother. (Photo/JTA-Warner Brothers-Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

Writing after Roth: ‘Now vee may perhaps to begin’

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin May 24, 2018
Posted inArt, Culture

Mexico’s consul general in S.F. is a playwright, author, social scientist and a Jew

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin September 4, 2015May 1, 2017
Posted inColumns

the space between | In reclaiming rituals around death, life comes full circle

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin July 31, 2015April 10, 2018
Posted inColumns

the space between | Looking at the Mideast through murals

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin May 15, 2015April 10, 2018
Posted inColumns, The Space Between

the space between | Jewish translation and the gravitational pull of history

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin April 17, 2015April 10, 2018
Posted inCulture

National confab examines challenges, opportunities for Jewish museums

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin March 13, 2015April 11, 2018
Posted inColumns, The Space Between

the space between | You like beautiful music? There’s an equation for that

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin February 20, 2015April 10, 2018
Posted inColumns

the space between | Gate is not a fence, but a passage to people and ideas

Dan Schifrin by Dan Schifrin January 16, 2015April 11, 2018

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