Music
‘The Band’s Visit,’ Drake win Grammy Awards
“The Band’s Visit,” the Tony Award-winning musical set in an Israeli village, added a Grammy Award to its list of accolades and Jewish rapper Drake also…
Art
Spanish artist Samanta Tello left her ‘heart’ in San Francisco
Like many immigrants — maybe all — Samanta Tello can feel her heart beat, metaphorically, in two places at once. The artist born in Spain came to San…
Celebrity Jews
The Jews go to the Grammys, 2019 edition
Grammy calculations The Grammy Awards will air live on CBS at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10. Here’s my list of Jewish nominees in the categories that will…
Art
Lola Fraknoi retrospective shows a life devoted to art and elders
Lola Fraknoi is a professional artist who wants everyone to try it. Making art, that is. Especially older adults, whom she instructs at multiple venues…
Art
The many selves of gender-bending artist and Nazi resister Claude Cahun
Who was Claude Cahun? If the French avant-garde artist and writer of the first half of the 20th century were still around, she might reply to that…
Summer Camp
He missed his summer camp days. So he made a podcast about it.
Many Jews attend overnight camp. But growing up, Micah Hart was so Jewish that he attended two every summer. Hart was the son of the director of Jacobs…
Off the Shelf
How our parents keep telling us who we are, even after they’re gone
The books section is supported by a generous donation from Anne Germanacos. Our relationships with our parents abide well after they are gone. Two…
Celebrity Jews
Finding Sandberg's 'Roots'; 'Three Identical Strangers' on CNN; etc.
Spinning the TV dial Sheryl Sandberg, 49, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a Menlo Park resident, will be featured on the PBS celebrity…
Film
Film tells of little-known post-Holocaust refuge in Italy
A 2015 documentary about Holocaust survivors in southern Italy after the war will be featured at a free Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the Oshman…