A new exhibit at the Jewish Heritage Museum at the Reutlinger Community in Danville features reproductions of famed Polish artist Moshe Rynecki’s paintings of prewar Jewish life in Warsaw. Oakland resident Elizabeth Rynecki, the artist’s great-granddaughter, discovered the journals of Moshe’s son George after his death, which inspired her to write a book called “Chasing…
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Parenting
My 7-year-old is a creative type. So I let him create.
One of the highlights of my 7-year-old son’s winter break was getting to visit his summer camp counselor. Cynthia, who directed the arts day camp that…
Hanukkah
After food writing career, artist finds appetite for ceramics
When Elaine Corn took her first ceramics workshop a decade ago, she didn’t know that it would spark a new passion — nor that years later it would become a…
Art
This artist retreat emphasizes that it’s a rich time for Jewish art in the Bay Area
On a misty fall morning, deep in the redwood forests of Mill Valley, more than two dozen Bay Area artists gather to play. A mix of writers, musicians,…
Art & About
Revisiting 1968 at the de Young; art, booze and sacred words in East Bay
“Something old, something new” is a phrase usually associated with wedding dresses. But it applies also to the cycle of creation, to wit, these two…
Art
Mexican-Jewish artist's colorful portraits of ‘the other’
Mexican-Jewish artist Aliza Nisenbaum sees a failure to communicate in the modern world — and her work as a way to counteract the dilemma. “The problem…
Philanthropy
S.F.-based Pritzker Fund endows major historical photo collection in Israel
In the black-and-white photograph, men and boys lean against the Western Wall, while women sit just behind them. The year is 1880, or thereabouts, and…
Books
Refugees’ stories illuminate universal pain of leaving home
In “Refugees in America,” Rabbi Lee T. Bycel introduces his book with lines from a poem by British-based writer and activist Warsan Shire, born in Kenya…
Art
S.F. Holocaust Memorial sculpture to undergo restoration
Visitors to the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco after Sept. 20 will notice that the Holocaust Memorial is missing. But not to worry. The…