Journalist Emily Tamkin’s comprehensive dive into the influence of George Soros is coming out into a very different world than she thought it would be released into. When she started, following the election of President Donald Trump, conspiracy theories about Soros were beginning to make the leap to mainstream in the United States. More recently,…
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Books
S.F. rabbi’s picture book brings kids to Torah by way of yoga
The rabbi is a yogi. And now also a children’s book author. With her colorfully illustrated debut, “I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga Book,” Rabbi…
Bay Area
Oakland man raising funds to feed impoverished Jews in India
Two decades ago, Bryan Schwartz of Oakland was traveling around India, taking pictures and collecting stories for a book about isolated Jewish communities…
Obituaries
Comedy legend Carl Reiner dies at 98
Until the last day of his life, Carl Reiner was tweeting about some of his favorite topics: politics, comedy and the twists and turns he experienced over…
Books
A treasure trove of LGBTQ texts from two millennia of Jewish history
A year before Noam Sienna, 30, earned his Ph.D. in Jewish history at the University of Minnesota last month, he had already published a groundbreaking…
TV
In alt-history 'Autonomies,' secular and religious worlds clash
In 2018, right around the time you probably discovered “Shtisel” — which debuted in Israel way back in 2013 — one of its writers’ more recent projects was…
Podcasts
New podcast looks at Israel and Jewish identity in ‘Age of Covid’
Interested in how a plague of locusts impacted Jews and Arabs in Palestine under Ottoman rule in 1915? Or how Haredi communities in Israel today have…
Art
Threads of memory: Survivor embroiders pain into beauty
My Ukrainian grandmother came to the U.S. at 17, fleeing the early 20th-century pogroms, then toiled as a seamstress for all her working years. But even…
Celebrity Jews
Nissim and Amar'e on horseback; 'Fauda' creator's new spy show; etc.
Jews on horseback Orthodox rapper Nissim Black has released a new video, “Win,” starring Amar’e Stoudemire, a former NBA star who now plays for Maccabi…